When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.
I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.
My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.
A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.
Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.
Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.
I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.
Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.
I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.
I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.
For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
I want to be the girl with the most cake.
Princess Di is my sister, she just won't admit it.
It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
But, you know, all good rock is easy.
I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.
Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
No one's coming in seeing my dogs, daughter or the crack of my ass, forget it.
I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.
When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."
Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.
I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.
