I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.

When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.