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I Do See That The World That We Live In Is Collapsing To A Certain Extent, And Civilization As We Know It Is Caving In On Itself. I Believe That We Are At A Very Low Level Of Consciousness, And We Do Not Know How To Treat Each Other As Human Beings. We Are Caught Up In Our Own Lives, Our Own Needs, Our Own Ego Gratification. I Feel A Strong Sense Of Responsibility In Delivering That Message.

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I Do See That The World That We Live In Is Collapsing To A Certain Extent, And Civilization As We Know It Is Caving In On Itself. I Believe That We Are At A Very Low Level Of Consciousness, And We Do Not Know How To Treat Each Other As Human Beings. We Are Caught Up In Our Own Lives, Our Own Needs, Our Own Ego Gratification. I Feel A Strong Sense Of Responsibility In Delivering That Message.

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There's One Thing You Can't Download And That's A Live Performance. And I Know How To Put On A Show, And Enjoy Performing, And I'll Always Have That.

When I First Came To New York I Was A Dancer, And A French Record Label Offered Me A Recording Contract And I Had To Go To Paris To Do It. So I Went There And That's How I Really Got Into The Music Business. But I Didn't Like What I Was Doing When I Got There, So I Left, And I Never Did A Record There.

I Could Never Work In A Recording Studio Where You Have This Lovely View And A Beach And The Waves Are Crashing. For Me, It's All About Being In A Tiny Room With Little Windows. It's Almost Like You Have To Be In A Prison. And You Can Create Beauty When You're In That Sort Of Deprived Environment, Which Is A Re-creation Of Your Formative Years.

Being Blond Is Definitely A Different State Of Mind. I Can't Really Put My Finger On It, But The Artifice Of Being Blond Has Some Incredible Sort Of Sexual Connotation.

Manipulating People, That's What I'm Good At

A Lot Of People Are Just Really Confused By Me; They Don’t Know What To Think Of Me, So They Try To Compartmentalize Me Or Diminish Me. Maybe They Just Feel Unsafe. But Any Time You Have An Overtly Emotional Or Irrational, Negative Reaction To Something, You’re Fearing Something That It’s Bringing Up In You.

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