A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own...

If I’m alone too long I think too much, and I’m not interested in doing that. That won’t lead anywhere good, I’m sure. If I’m busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle...

I liked an Aretha Franklin song and I went into the studio to do a cover to see if I could sing. I basically walked in there and said, ‘Let’s just try this, and if...

I’ll be comfortable on stage if people come because they like the album and they really want to see me. Not because they look at it as a curiosity, or they’re really skeptical.

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of...

I’ve produced something that was mine, that I’m proud of, so it helps me hold my head up a bit higher. It’s not based on some other B.S. that I’m getting attention. I get attention...

At the time I agreed to do The Weatherman, I was going through a divorce,

That you sit around, and you drink and you curse and you’re [expletive] funny and you have a bad mouth, and you don’t have that high voice all the time. I don’t know why you...

With a lot of hair and make-up then I’m possibly, remotely attractive. But it’s rare, I don’t think I’m ugly but I’m nothing particularly special. I’m not a yoga and health girl. I don’t exercise...

I’m not a big mover. Apparently I do have some mannerisms on stage.

I’ve been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

The reason I did this, and the reason the record is called To Whom It May Concern, is that there are going to be people who will immediately judge me, or label me, or try...

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don’t think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

I don’t deal well with admiration if it’s for something I haven’t done. Other than exist.

[Cage is frank about why he was drawn to the film.] I was going through a divorce … and was feeling adrift and vulnerable. I heard about the movie, and I thought it might be...

I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that’s it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older...

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I’m in, that I’d attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there...

I’m sure there’s no way to escape the fact that I was heavily influenced by him. I was only around his music and him most of the early part of my life. It’s impossible not...

Music’s always been such a big part of my life – it’s always got me through everything and it always moves me – so I wanted to move others in some way, or touch them,...

I do feel relieved. I do feel like I did what I needed to do for myself, and for whoever’s out there who wants to be moved by me. I aimed it at people who...

I’m not eager to jump into marriage again. I’m in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

My son is a huge rap fan. My daughter is more rap/alternative/pop.

It hasn’t happened very often that I’ve actually given my heart. Sometimes I can be completely smitten, but I’ll still keep it back at arm’s length. Because if I do give it to someone and...

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I’m not an Elvis impersonator.

I have a lot of memories, but I don’t go into capitalizing on that. Something’s got to be my own. I’m not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the...

I’m looking forward to being the Grand Marshal at the Sam’s Town 250. I’ve definitely become a total NASCAR fan!

I do like to write nasty songs. It’s a useful weapon to have, and it’s cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

I had no interest in hanging out with other celebrity kids, and I was certainly no cheerleader, so I started mixing with outsiders. I was very into all kinds of experimentation.

My life has been unusual. I was born to unusual circumstances, but I’m surviving and going through crap just like anybody else. Sure, it might be on a different level and maybe in a different...

I was very much a daddy’s girl, and was pretty tyrannical when he was sleeping. If I could get into trouble, I would. I didn’t have a lot of respect for those people because I...

I’m the bravest that I’ve ever been right now. Don’t ask me where I got these balls: I have no idea.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the ’70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

I am satisfied with the settlement.

I’m trying to have my own thing, and I don’t know if it’s even possible. I didn’t realize so many people actually think I’m trying to be like my dad. I read comments like ‘She’s...

I’m like a lion – I roar. If someone betrays me, I won’t be a victim. I don’t sulk, I get angry. I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.

I come from a different situation than most people. I’ve been handed a different set of chips, and I’ve tried to find my way with it. Unfortunately, it’s been in front of the public, but...

I’m a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack – my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

Stardom is difficult. It is a lonely, alienated position. You sometimes put yourself on a different plane than everyone else. That causes problems.

When they divorced, I would go out on the road more and miss more school, which I liked. People say I didn’t get to see him very much, but I was with him quite a...

Scientology explains to me the answers to life, the mind, people, insanity, man, in a way that, to me, is applicable. It doesn’t use fear, or suppression or the devil – it’s not repressive. Mainly,...

I don’t respond to music that’s not honest, and music’s had a huge influence on my whole life. It’s gotten me through everything. I don’t respond to music that’s full of crap . Since it’s...

Forever here today, never gone tomorrow, my eternal friend, I love you.

I’m not interested in attention and I don’t like being gawked at. I have no interest in standing out from the crowd whatsoever. If anything, my instinct is to hide, to be reclusive.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I’m not proud of this, and I’m not trying to promote it.

I won’t say who my songs are about. But the record was written over a four-year period. I can sit and write about something that happened 10 years ago or two hours ago.

I’ve been writing this record for the past five years, and I’ve written about things that happened during that period.

I’m more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you’re like, “What?”

Having kids was the smartest thing I’ve ever done. They’re little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I’m interested in having more kids.