The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.
I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.
He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.
Drag wasn’t always counterculture.
Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it’s directly attacking the nervous system, as if you’re being bitten by fleas and lice. It’s all in the tissue and it’s not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I’ve been sick all my life.
I’m a painter first, and a musician second.
They’ll crucify you for staying the same, and they’ll crucify you for change. I’d rather be crucified for changing.
Van Gogh was impulsive.
I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.
I hate show business.
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don’t see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven’t recorded it.
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
But you know it’s hard to tell When you’re in the spell if it’s wrong or if it’s real But you’re bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel.
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
My first four albums covered the usual youth problems – looking for love in all the wrong places – while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.
If I’m censoring for anyone, it’s for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don’t understand me that well.
My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I’m a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, ‘Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!’ and I took that as a great compliment. That’s exactly my intention.
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn’t like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you’re still young at heart.