I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.

I want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I'm on this planet.

I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist.

I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.

Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.

Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.

Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.

My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

If you have an opinion and people disagree with you, you might not get a job. You might be blacklisted. You might have fewer followers on Instagram.

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.

I see a huge paradox in me -- the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.

It's weird juggling children in a rhinestone outfit.

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.