My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.