Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.