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.

In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I'm on the edge with you

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.