Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.