Once you start turning over rocks and reaching out to help people, there’s a whole avalanche coming right behind it. And it seems never-ending. But when you see the fruits of your labor, you feel like it’s possible.
People don’t know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying – is just – is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don’t understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge.
Losing my virginity was a career move.
I think that its an artist’s responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something.
The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful.
I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there’s numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million.
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.
You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn’t the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don’t have a problem with it.
In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create – the energy that we put out into the world is eternal.
We’re very privileged as Americans – it’s easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else.
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
Who needs a smile when a tear’s so full of love?
I am very proud to be Italian.
When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
I don’t doubt love for a second. I’m living for love. Listen to my songs!
I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.
I ran to the forest, I ran to the trees. I ran and I ran, I was looking for me.
In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.
Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can’t rush. You can’t skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can’t judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.