"I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy."

"People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic."

"Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve."

"I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age."

"Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs."

"I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go."

"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."

"The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up."