People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.