It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.

I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be

It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.