I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.

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

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

Еhe older you get, the more baggage you have, and the harder it is to just split.

I'm a girl from Sweden. I took a lot of risks and went to New York by myself when I was 19 just because I read about it in a few books. I came here knowing nobody, having no money, and now I'm doing all these things like making records and videos every day.

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