I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

The 2 things I like the most are girls and loud noises.

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

I thought that if I practiced doing melodies for a year or so at home, I would learn to think melodically, and when I went to work it would come out, and it did, on this album. What else was important to me...? I spend a lot of time in the grocery store, shopping.