My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind of oppression, even self-oppression. I consider that the main job of the art that I do- to rattle the cage, wake people up, wake myself up, confront all that would conspire to keep us down.

I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.

Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.