I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool.

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

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.

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.

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen.