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My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on. ”

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress. ”

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. ”

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness. ”

I can't live without my silver Marc Jacobs boots! They are a little bit cowboy, a little bit space alien. They go with everything. ”

On stage, I need to be seen from the back seats. So, I dress more colorful and vibrant. ”

My style is a mashup of different eras, but each piece I have makes me feel good about myself. I do have a taste for expensive shoes. ”

A lot of artists get famous overseas first. I don't know what it is here. I have a large underground following in the U.S., but I don't get the airplay as much as I do in, say, Australia. Over there, they can play whatever they like, it seems, but not so much here. ”

I would love to design my own shoe line. Women suffer too much in heels. I want to design a line of sexy platform heels that don't hurt. ”

My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details. ”