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 really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe it was my father's turn, but then I realized that everyone would jump on that and assume I'd had some falling out with my mother, which is absolutely not the case.

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir