I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find.

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.