Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.