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It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play.

I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

I've never been onstage in my life.

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.