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.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction.

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

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

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.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.