I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

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

I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

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.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.