When you connect with people, they want to help you.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.