I've walked these streets, in a carnival of sights to see. All the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors & the dealers, they crowded around me. Have I been blind? Have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind? Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen? I've walked these streets, in a spectacle of wealth & poverty. In the diamond market, the scarlet welcome carpet that they just rolled out for me.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.