You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.

He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.