I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.

I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

I'm not going to judge what I do.

I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

There's this celebrity thing that goes along with making records or being a rock star. I'm into this celebrity thing just enough to let me go on making records and making a living out of it.

Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.