There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.