I like to deal with my dark side in a creative way, and just sing about killing people instead of actually doing it.

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

I have a phobia of checking voicemail. I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and everything is, like, you're gonna get kidnapped, or somebody's gonna die, or killer bees are going to take you out. I'm a very anxious person.

It's pretty amazing, someone having that kind of charisma - and it still happens in micro and macro forms - to convince a whole gaggle of people to kill themselves. Or put on robes and jump up and down. That takes a very charismatic leader.

I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and I think that probably the sooner critics and press outlets can just erase the 'what's it like being a women in rock?' question from their vocabulary, the better off everyone will be.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.