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I Do Have Personal Relationships With A Lot Of "fans," In Quotations. I Answer All My Mail, I Get Emails From Fans, And I Try To Answer Them All. That's Important To Me, But Occasionally There's The Thing Where People Basically Ask Me To Write Book Reports For Them, And I Don't Have That Kind Of Time. I Feel Like There's A Certain Sexism Involved, Like Because I'm A Woman I'm Supposed To Constantly Be Like Giving To Everybody.

Whatever Your Personality Was Before, An Illness Makes It That Plus A Thousand. I'm A Very Binary Person In A Bad Way Where It's Like Everything Is Either Totally Great Or Totally Awful. I Don't Understand Grey Area That Well, And I've Been Working At That.

My Illness Has Changed Me - I've Always Thought "life Is Short And I Wanna Make As Much Of It As I Can," But I Really Don't Have Time To Mess Around. This Has Really Been A Wake-up Call In Terms Of What's Important, And I'm Working Hard To Figure That Out. I Need To Get Better At Not Doing Favors For People All The Time. It's Hard Because There's So Many People Who Have Helped Me Get To The Point Where I'm In A Band That People Wanna Come See, Or Where People Pay Money To See Me Lecture.

The Only Thing I Collect Is Art. I Collect It Because I Like Looking At It. A Lot Of It Is Really Personal Stuff That My Friends Have Made, Paintings That My Husband's Mother Made, And Things That I Bought. I Buy Abstract Art On Ebay, And I Buy Some Outsider Art On Ebay, Or What Is Called Folk Art, I Buy A Lot Of. I Have A Lot Of Professional Art Work As Well As More Stuff My Friends' Kids Make. To Have A Wall Of Art To Look At, I Feel Really Surrounded By Love, Because So Much Of The Work Is Related To My Friendships.

Clearly, Gay Marriage Is On The Top Of The Agenda Right Now. It's Pretty Amazing, Considering Where Stuff Was At When I Was In High-school, When There Were No Lgbt Gay-straight Alliances Or Any Of That Stuff. Am I A Huge Lady Gaga Fan? No, But I Think Some Of The Stuff She Does That Helps Lgbt Kids Is Amazing. And It's Great That That's Mainstream. It's Fantastic That There's A Pop Star Who's Willing To Put Herself Out In That Way.