I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

It takes your mind off things when there's a cat in your lip and he's purring while you're petting him.

I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.

I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.

I just write what I want to write.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.