Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be totally alone on a hillside and I love that kind of secluded, deserted rawness.

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

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.

I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

I'm from Sweden so I don't enjoy winter at all; there's nothing cute about it.