You're getting angry, you know I can see. You're just jealous, cause you can't be me.

I tried to be a boy, I tried to be a girl, I tried to be a mess.

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

There's no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create.

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work.