Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.

You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we've been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren't like us.

I'd rather be creative and be artistic and be able to play intricate music that moves and really takes you on a journey.