My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

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.

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

There have been great things that happened to me.

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

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

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

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

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

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

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.

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.

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.

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?