If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it's been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people's that I've worked with. But it's okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

I hope that there is a very confused 14 year old girl out there who hears me speak or hears me sing and derives some sort of strength from that I heard that when I was 14 that's exactly what happened.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.