The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

Egotistical people are not pretty. We all know that, I'm sure everybody knows an egotistical person someplace.

For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.