Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.

I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.