He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.