I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

There's cleanliness to how I eat now. I'm much more in tune with my body, so now that I'm so in tune based on having become a semivegan, I can tell what foods affect energy levels. I can tell when I've been eating particularly high nutrient foods or I can tell when my glycemic levels are all over the place.

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.'

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.