A former music journalist, in an interview she compared writing about madness in her new memoirs to writing about music. A quote from the book:
"....It's almost always pills with women. It's the gentle seeping out women seek, like on a classic soul record, when the volume on Otis Redding gets turned down until he's gone. What happens after the fade out? What are the musicians doing now in that room? Take me there, take me there...."