I relate to hustlers who want to get out of where they are and create something different for themselves.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.

I'm a girl from Sweden. I took a lot of risks and went to New York by myself when I was 19 just because I read about it in a few books. I came here knowing nobody, having no money, and now I'm doing all these things like making records and videos every day.

You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge."

The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it