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.

People talk about my image like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind.

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.

Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.

I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.

The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask

If you turn on the TV, you're going to get a certain palate, and if you go looking underneath the surface, there's a whole lot of stuff there that I think a lot of our generation would be really interested in.