Peaches

“The cover for my album 'I Feel Cream,' I wore a piece by Brian Litchenberg. He went on to design for Beyonce and M.I.A., I'm always the jumping off point for designers. We did one photo shoot together, and one shot ended up as the album cover.”

“I'm not saying like, 'Get rid of the man!' I'm saying, let's understand each other.”

“I thrive on misconceptions.”

“A theater in Berlin asked me if I wanted to do a theater production. Right away I said I wanted to do 'Peaches Christ Superstar' as a one-woman show. I've had this idea since I was about 14, when I used to listen to the 'Jesus Christ Superstar' soundtrack and just act it out by myself.”

“I meet incredible people and travel the world. I mean, it's pretty great, and pretty involved, and pretty exhausting, but also really special.”

“I never was interested in people being shocked by what I do. I'm actually shocked by people being shocked at what I do, because I'm just saying things that people say in daily life and things like that.”

“I grew up with rock as a teenager in the '80s. But I've done a lot of remixing and I know a lot of deejays.”

“I never set out to do fashion.”

“We call people every part of our body as an insult. That's gotta tell you something about the way we view our own bodies in our culture.”

“A beautiful marriage of music and style is Bjork wearing Iris Van Herpen. That is next level.”

“In high school, I was not letting my deep side out at all. Then I went to Israel with a bunch of my friends on a Birthright trip. I was reading 'Siddhartha' and didn't talk to anybody for days on this trip.”

“I feel people have misconceptions about me, so I'm always reintroducing myself. It doesn't mean that I'm repeating myself.”

“I was trying to mix Kraftwerk and the Stooges and all these different kinds of things. People just didn't understand it.”

“I don't know, 'The Teaches of Peaches' just works for people.”

“Oh my God, 'Blackout' is my favorite Britney album.”

“I've thought the whole thing through - I'm trying to infiltrate pop culture. People have told me they've had a boyfriend for 10 years, and then they came to my show and kissed a girl for the first time.”

“I grew up in a Jewish community where you listened to 'Fiddler on the Roof' and 'West Side Story.'”

“If you think about a punk band, there are only, like, three instruments - bass, guitar and drums. And I wanted it to be open, I wanted it to be inclusive and I wanted people to feel like they could sing along.”

“Quite simply I just wanted to make what I wanted.”

“Usually in my own shows I'm running around like crazy, climbing on things, jumping on people.”