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

I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

I think in the first place hearing the music inside of you is very soothing, very comforting. For me there always been, if you like, a spiritual connection between myself and music.

I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.