I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

Don't worry, everyone is mentally ill, they just haven’t figured out a name for yours yet.

Oh I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short!

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.