Action is the antidote to despair.

I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.