Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.

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

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

Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth.

Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.

Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?