I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

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.

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.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

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

The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.