What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

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'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.