My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

Throw your stick and stones, throw your bombs and your blows, but you're not gonna break my soul.

Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar

My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.

I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak.

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.