I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

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

My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.