Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.
It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.
As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.
That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.
