I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

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.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.