I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken...
As a kid I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving running...
Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I...
When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours...
I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller and...
It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there like 'Hey how do...
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy...
Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to...
For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood waking up in...
I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money but that's...
'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger kids who...
I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some...
We all seek approval and our mother's seal is usually the most important....
I was given baby doll toys myself and they proved a stark reminder that my...
When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her...
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom a musician who came from an incredibly...
I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of...
I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of...
I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being...
When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come...
Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at...
Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene....
As with most phobias the fear of flying does make some sense but if ever...
You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved....
So the poet who wants to be something that he cannot be and is a failure in plain life makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
