Everything does go in a circle.
My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.
I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.
If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?
Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.
