I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.

Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold me

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.