I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.

You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them around on their head so that they mean exactly the opposite of what they are written down. There are endless possibilities which I think Diamanda Galás is doing already. She turns everything upside down by the way she sings it. She makes you feel nauseous or horrified or ridiculous just by her voice. I think that's an incredible power.