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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.

I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

When the militias came to Wau, they would blast out 'Thriller' as they moved down the dirt streets.