The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.

Marilyn is real. I wake up and I am Marilyn.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.