My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.