A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.