Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

Let the little fairy in you fly!

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.

When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.