I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

I thought, "Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway." It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in there. What all this comes down to is I was just trying to get in touch with myself. And I met some interesting people in New York who weren't in show business. I even got to know my dentist.

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

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.

What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.