The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now.

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

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.

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 don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.

I hope there is an edge to what I do.

I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.