Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.