I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

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

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.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.