We can all choose to become our potential, not just talk about it or dream about it. But daily, make a shift whereby we begin living and being our potential. With each day, that potential can expand because we are open to learning something every day.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?

I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.