These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.