I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.

What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world.

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.