I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.
I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.
I think that I've had a very strange life.
I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.
It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
I remember my first night in L.A. I was sitting outside, looking out at the city and thinking, 'I don't know anyone.' I just approached it as a big adventure. I still think of it that way.
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