It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

Fashion goes round in circles.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

Decision decides destiny. What God wants you to become is the positive person you decide to become when led by God's spirit.

God, he was going to destroy her. But maybe for the first time in her life, she’d found a man worth shattering for.

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.