In the past, I had workaholic issues.

I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.

How about not equating death with stopping?

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.

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

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.