I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.

My talent matters more to me than the money does.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

Being a woman in the pop world, sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What's the line? I don't have a line. I am the most sexually free woman on the planet, and I genuinely am empowered from a very honest place by my sexuality. What's more primal than sex? I mean, it's so honest. If I didn't think I had the talent to back that up, I wouldn't have done it.