Macy Gray quotes:

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?

I've never met anyone that is their image.

Being God would be the ultimate.

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.

I just love being on stage and I love making music, and as far as - it's great for narcissism, because you have all those people screaming out your name.

I write in the studio.

It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.

My voice is definitely a big present for me from God, because it's not like I can even take credit for it.

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

You could either go the traditional way or the other way. I went the other way.