I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

I don't have much to complain about in life, because I've lived a very privileged existence and continue to. I just think, What if I didn't have that confidence or strength of character, and I was left with certain perceptions of what a woman's place is in the world?

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with all of them. She had this unbelievable insight into contemporary psychoanalysis. What is so interesting is that she wrote her life, and she knew that her life would be about these men, and it didn't stop her from leading an incredibly successful academic career. But her strange self-awareness that she was going to bookmark these men's lives is really interesting to me.