It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead.

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.