The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.

The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.

Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.