In the land of God’s and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.
I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.
My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.
I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying.
Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.
Even if you’re the best singer in the world, there’s a good chance no one will ever hear you.
I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it’s an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it’s still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.
I sing the National Anthem, while I’m standing, over your body, hold you like a python.
When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.
I like a little hardcore love.
Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind...
I believe in the country America used to be.
I’m not trying to create an image or a persona. I’m just singing because that’s what I know how to do.
My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that’s not my aim.
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‘Off to the Races’ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
Synchronicites. It’s been said that coincidences are God’s way of remaining anonymous. Synchronicities are a sign of divinity. You breathe in deeply and say: ‘I don’t want anything. I’m going to let things happen’
I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.