A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. |
And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island. |
Besides dancing at school and the studios, I'd written all these songs and had begun to play them at auditions. |
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized. |
Don't make a threat and then not do it. |
Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair. |
He was the first person I ever saw live on stage, and I was really offended by everything he was doing, |
How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective. |
I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong. |
I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived. |
I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me. |
I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick. |
I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy. |
I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios-the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us-and the feeling of ritual the classes had. |
I refuse to slap some stupid words on the stupid paper just so we have a stupid song finished. |