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

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

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

Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.