When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

I don't think that all girls seek the influence of older men, but I think girls whose fathers are absent or recessed from their lives often do. And honestly, when I was growing up, fathers were generally pretty absent from their children's lives. We didn't see a lot of them. That may be something that has genuinely changed for the better in our culture: men are more present for their children now that more women are working.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?