I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to

I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.

Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

I love it when celebrities fall apart, you want them to fall apart like Charlie Sheen.

These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.