I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.