The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.
About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.
I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.
If you can't say it in three minutes, I don't want to know about it.
I hereby arm myself for today with coffee and the willingness to be wrong.
You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know.
Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.
This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.
I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.
I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.
I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.
I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.
Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
My favorite dance move is the 'Old Man.'
A secret talent or hobby... Hmm... I weirdly collect shot glasses.
I think things happened the way they did for a reason.
Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.