I just make music based on what I believe.

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

I always write knowing that people will hear it, but also hoping they'll see it. So a lot of times I make lyrical decisions based on what looks better. Also I write based on what I saw for a video. I obsess over lyrics in the hopes that they'll endure in different ways. I'm very precious about it.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.