I'm sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.

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

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there.

I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.

In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal.