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.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

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

I love stretching myself musically.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.