I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

If you lined up everyone I've ever dated, you wouldn't see any similarities.

I saw a Velveeta commercial and it was playing, I think 'Burning Love.' He [Michael Jackson] had approved it - that's something we can't control. He can do whatever he wants with the songs he owns to make money, and that got under my skin.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.