An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

Sex sells everything and sex kills.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.