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

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.

How do we let people pay for music?

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I'm seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.