If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.