Do you have to have emotional turmoil to create music? I'm not sure because I've never been without it

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

I had a period after touring the first record where I didn't agree with the way things worked in the music industry as far as how you release music, demand, the pace of everything. You don't know who's talking to you. Who's Spotify? Who's iTunes? Who are all those bloggers? Who says I have to do this? Why do you have to do all this press? Why do I have to do so many shows? Why do I have to do a regular album right now? I don't understand it.

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

I hung out with some crazy desert people. One guy was just walking around with only shorts on - he'd been walking with bare feet for the last two years. He was totally scarred and eating on all fours like a dog.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.