I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

I just truly want to live in this dream world that I've created. And I want everyone else to live in it with me, on stage, or in the music videos or listening to the music. I just try to be the girl that I really needed when I was 14.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.