I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.

Being poor in Africa is something people in America can't relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving them. You have to arouse compassion.

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person

I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me.

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

I'm not a reluctant pop star. I'm very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I've had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn't, I will survive that and life goes on.