My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.

Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?

Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".