I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original songs come out better.