But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.