I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.