If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

There are some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. It's not a choice, we're born this way.