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

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

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.

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.

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