I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.