Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.

John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.

Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.