I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.