When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

High heels off; I'm feeling alive.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.