I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

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

There are more than enough to fight and oppose; why waste good time fighting the people you like?

Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.