You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me.

I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.

Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.

I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.