Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-­dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.

God looks out for fools and babies.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind