"Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously."

"And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning."

"I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is."

"What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."

"I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck."

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."

"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven."

"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."