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

I love stretching myself musically.

There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

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.