There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.