I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Real religion is no religion at all.