I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.