The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

You feed it all your woes, the ghostly garden grows.

I got in before SoHo was SoHo. It was just Little Italy when I was in there. It's still off the touristy track. It's just away from the Saturday action, the crowds and everything. It's too expensive. It's insane. You've got to be a billionaire to live on Manhattan now.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.