I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.