I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

Look up here, I'm in heaven.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.