“I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.”

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.”

“Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.”

“Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.”

“My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone, for reasones unknow to me.”

“I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name”

“Mary praise the rosary for my broken mind.”

“I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.”

“I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.”

“In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.”

“I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.”