I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

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

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

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.