I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
Muhammad, my friend, I’m getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don’t know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?
You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.
I really really love Christ, but I’m not a Christian.
You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don’t exist.
If you can’t create physical life, you find a life force. If that’s in music, that’s in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn’t do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.
If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you’re drowning.
You know when people smile too much? It’s painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I’m trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.
I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
Pretty is never beautiful.
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it’s the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can rise to when you have a good meal. You sit down and with every bite you honestly just say thank you.
I’m the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over...
Nothing’s gonna stop me from floating.
So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name.
Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon.