I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.

It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.

I have a hard time thinking of men trying to sing my songs, because I think my perspective is definitely feminine.