There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.

The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.

I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

If there's any time you should be on drugs it's when you're pregnant, cause it sucks.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.