I don’t have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.
I wouldn’t record any song that I didn’t like.
I’m in the business where you get the business all the time.
I’ve always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.
If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn’t recognize me.
If you can’t go one way, there’s many ways to get where you’re going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
I’ve got a Grammy and Emmy, I’d like to have a Tony.
When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.
My music is about a joyful experience. I’ve learned that if you can affect other people, you should.
I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school – that and painting.
I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what’s the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?
I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I’ve always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.
When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what’s happening now in my life.
Fame doesn’t redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you’re finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
I’ve been a diva since I was four.
There have been great things that happened to me.