It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

[On God:] She makes everything possible.

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.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.