It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.