I'm not the kind of person that likes to be dependent.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

I was feeling that I was the in the dead-end circuit from 1980 to 1983, and I didn't know what else to do. I remember doing a show in some college town, in a tiny club, and afterward some fans came back. I thought I had done good gig and they were going to tell me that.

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here was that I don't feel warm outside of a city; it's too barren in the suburbs, and L.A. is a suburb. Here, it felt active.

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.