It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.

I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

I didn't know what my fate was as far as being alive.