Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage.

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.

Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem has brought their careers to an end.

I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.