On Some Of My Darkest

Sometimes It Seems Like We're Closer To Our Manicurists Than We Are Our Own Souls. We Have To Find Ways To Get In Touch With That And To Listen To It And To Hear It.

My Mother Says I Was Two-and-a-half When I Started Playing. My Father Was A Minister, And When He Went To Church In The Morning, She Would Put On Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole And Cole Porter Records. I'd Crawl Up On The Piano Stool, Sit On A Phone Book And Play.

Sometimes You Are Forced To Defend Your Beliefs. Sometimes You Are Forced To Look At Relationships That Aren't Positive Anymore. There Are Times When I Have Had To Make Peace With The Fact That I Am At War. And Sometimes You Have To Fight Those Who Do Not Want Love To Conquer All.

My Favorite Saying Is, 'if It's Too Loud, Turn It Up.'

What Girls Do To Each Other Is Beyond Description. No Chinese Torture Comes Close.