Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.

You change the world by being yourself.

I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear

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

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.