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

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.

Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.