When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.

I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.

I always wanted to rebel.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.