My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. I'm always writing little lines and saving them for later.

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

Oh my god, it's good to be alive!

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.