I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

I never had any dates. I never really had any boyfriends. I was the girl who did the guys' homework. I was really crazy about guys but I was always like one of the boys. The guys I always fell in love with were completely inaccessible.

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.