It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude and loyalty and commitment to my work. I just don't prioritize my life in the same way that other people do. The only thing that matters is my music and my performance.

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 supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.

Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of.

You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.