I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

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.

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango