I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

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'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.

Those were the things on my mind [stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people], not career, money, drugs, sex, alcohol or fun. Not that there's anything wrong with any of those things, but they aren't in the film [Dream of Life], because that wasn't my life at the time.

Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.