If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.

I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

Thank God that I get to do what I get to do; there's no way to tell you how grateful I am.

I've been spoiled being in the fashion business. My son will be like, 'Mommy, 20 new pairs of shoes came today. How come?' Because I'm always telling him it's not normal to have 20 pairs of tennis shoes to try on before school.