I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers.

Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35.