What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

When you're an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release.

I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry.

I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.

I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.