I had a real come-to-Jesus a couple of years ago when I started to see the direct line between feminism and everything else - feminism and climate change, feminism and poverty, feminism and hunger - and it was almost like I was born again and started walking down the street and was like, "Oh, my God, there are women everywhere! They're just everywhere you look. There's women all over the place!"

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.