I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

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.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.