I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

Packed up the Dylan and the Man Ray and the JoyceI left a note that said well I guess I got no choiceScuse me girl while I'm kicking it to the curbLeaving with all I need but less than I deserve

Hate is a self-destructive illness.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

Finding like-minded people is very important. It's hard to be a happy meal in a room full of sad people.

As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

I do a lot of stairs, a lot of planks, a lot of squats, a lot of treadmill, a lot of screaming - and I do it four times a week.

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.