There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'm so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I've been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.

I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

America's a very traumatized society.

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.