The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool but if that's all you've got it's just boring. Everything I write whether it's happy or sad has a sense of humor to it.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

Attitude is attitude whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster you know?

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.