I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life was different. New York was different. The music business was different. I miss the simplicity of it, the naivete of everyone around me.

My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.

Go down where all life begins, go down that's where my love is.

You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.

I'm angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.

I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.