I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things.

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of celebrity in this country leads us away from democratic ways of thinking and into this hero worship. And so of course, one man cannot swoop in and fix everything on his own. It's much more complicated and difficult than that, and progressives in this country since then have had to come to terms with the fact that we need to do more than actually get out of our house and vote. It's an ongoing process to turn the tide.

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.