Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.

I am as constant as a northern star

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.