Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.