I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

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 prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.