I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

When I originally wrote "Jealousy," it was more like an exercise to try to write a girl-group kind of pop song. It was really contrary to most of the material I'd ever written. I didn't pay much attention to the song after I'd recorded it. I didn't really perform it at all the last 20 years. When it came time to make the new record, I decided to make peace with the song and have fun with it.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.