Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

I don't think anything can prepare you for one's losses.

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.