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I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers...

I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he...

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.

Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go...

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.