Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.