It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

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 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.