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I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.


I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.


When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.


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.


Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.


With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.


I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.


I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.


I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.


I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.


Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.


What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?


I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.


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?


When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.


When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.


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.


My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.


Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.


If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.