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

I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.

A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

When you write songs you're commenting on love, you're commenting on sex, relationships, whatever it is that you decide to write about it. And I've wanted to write about politics or spiritual ideas for years.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.