In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can.
I have a great appreciation for our world’s history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we’ve made as a human race.
When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.
I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it’s all good. It’s all good!
My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I’ve been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me.
I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music – I take what I want and leave the rest.
That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.
It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.
The angels decided to shine on me for a little while.
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
It’s just a relief, really. I’m scared to die, but I want to die.
People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it’s not 1952 anymore.
No money, no place to live – I’ve been in more dangerous situations than other people.
I only know how to do me, so that’s just what I’m going to do.
Being an entrepreneur doesn’t make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn’t mean that you’re successful. It just means that you’re interesting.
It’s amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.
I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.
My parents were lovely. They’ve always been supportive. When you love your child, you don’t know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I’d be worried for them too if I didn’t have guidance to give them.
Bad things happen everyday but you’re not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don’t think about them.
Einstein said ‘your imagination is more important than intelligence,’ and I have a very, very big imagination.