Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.

When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I never erase anything [and] I hardly ever write anything down... The song will be finished before I write it down... I won't write a song unless it serves me in some way, unless I feel I have to write the song to make myself feel better. If you're not overflowing with something, there's nothing to give.

As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.