But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.

When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game.

I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.