Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst