It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.

You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.