I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.

Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time where it gets to us very quickly and very young. So how do you maintain in a child that sense of unique identity before they get thrown all that is projected on them?

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

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

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?