You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.

I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

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

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.