I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.