The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

I don't talk about my private life.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.