I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

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

My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

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