There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge. I just look at things as a fan, I like or or I don't like it.