[As a kid] I felt it was really weird that music schools behaved like a conveyor belt to make performers for those symphony orchestras. If you were really good and practiced your violin for a few hours a day for ten years you might be invited to this VIP elite club. For me music was not about that. It is about freedom and expression and individuality and impulsiveness and spontaneity. It wasn't so Apollonian; it was more Dionysian.

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That's what women do a lot - they're the glue between a lot of things.

There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.