Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.

You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.

I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America.

Mowing your lawn is against nature.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?