I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them.

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

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?

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them.