Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.

Then not everything is gonna be the way you think it oughta be. It seems like everytime I try to make it right, it all comes down on me. Please say honestly you won't give up on me, and I shall believe.

Lie to me, I promise to believe. Lie to me, but please don't leave.

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'

I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.

My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.