If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

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.

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

Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

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.'

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.