We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.

Look at yourself in the mirror and don't be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes.

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.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.