I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.

I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.

[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.