When I originally wrote "Jealousy," it was more like an exercise to try to write a girl-group kind of pop song. It was really contrary to most of the material I'd ever written. I didn't pay much attention to the song after I'd recorded it. I didn't really perform it at all the last 20 years. When it came time to make the new record, I decided to make peace with the song and have fun with it.

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!