My real fans know who I truly am and they know what I represent and what I mean.

The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.

You dont need money, or plastic surgery to be a star

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.

If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!

Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!

I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.

Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don’t feel alive unless I’m performing, and that’s just the way I was born.

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual

I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things.

I'm actually really obsessed with Bruce Springsteen.

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

Most stories are based on something real.

Mirrors are liars. They tell us what we expect to see.

The miracle of life is faith.

The difference between being in a relationship and being in prison is that in prison they let you play Softball on the weekends.

I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

Integrity is never painless.

My heart is with Hillary Clinton.