And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

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

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.

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

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.'