When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.

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

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

I'm always trying to create something that the fans won't expect.