People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Believe everything you read

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.