I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming from whatever corners it's coming from and somehow manifesting all of that anger into something positive, which is such a hard job.

Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.