Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the time a couple asked for a recommendation, and I recommended Raising Arizona and they absolutely hated it. They came back hungry for blood. I was on my lunch break and my boss came out and said, "Hey kid, you need to come talk to these people. They totally hate Arizona." And he said, "Arizona's a dog; nobody gets that movie."