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.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

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

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.