I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect.

When we started becoming friends [with Prince], I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs.

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take.

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.