I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.

I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.