I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?" and I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. After I saw myself at the MTV Awards, I realized, Wow, I do kind of come off a bit intense. I wasn't upset at MTV at all - I didn't mean to come off that way. But I think it's good if I appeared a bit angry. People are too complacent.

The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.