I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.