I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!

The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

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.

Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.