I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.

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.

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.

I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.

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