“I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes ...” — Frankie Cosmos Quote

I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.

It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially for teenagers who are starting to write: to see that I started out making pretty easy and weird and bad-sounding music and that you can teach yourself how to write over a long period of time.

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

It's even easier to write about the past now that I'm happy and have better stuff to write about. That's why someone like Bob Dylan can make so many records over so long a time; it's not like he's been sad all this time. He's really successful!

It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

It's hard for me to be involved in superficial friendships with other women.