I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same.

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

People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep

Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.