I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me.

If I was white, I would be like John Wayne. I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play. Somebody who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, from poverty.

I got a big mouth, I can't help it. I talk from my heart, I'm real.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren't going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.