There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

If you're dissatisfied anywhere, New York is the place to be. If you're unhappy at college in Topeka, I don't know what there is to distract yourself with, you know? So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself.

I was in school for jazz voice, which is the dumbest way to spend $35,000 a year. I just felt like a rip-off of good jazz singers. I didn't feel like I was being anything special, and I always wanted to be special. It's like you know you have something inside you that's gonna make you different than everybody else and make you somebody in this life, but you wish you could figure out what it is, because at most things, you're either mediocre or really, really bad.

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.