You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.

I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.