If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.

Elvis Presley? He's God.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.

Manipulating people, that's what I'm good at

Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it.