Back when I started, you could either be a folk singer, or you could be a disco diva, or you could be a secretary or maybe a disc jockey, but there was no room for anything alternative yet.

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

What's important to me is love, especially that. What's important to me is growing and evolving. But ultimately, what's important to me is being real and being authentic. I've spent enough time in my life holding poses, playing roles.

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.