You have to defend your honor. And your family.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

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.