Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

I was never pop-music taken seriously when I was taught. But some people who agree with you will like your music, and some who don't agree with you will like your music. I think that if you can approach things in a universal fashion and speak rationally about things, then most people do have similar intrinsic values. They don't - or at least they feel that they shouldn't - want other people to suffer. They want a good life for them and their own.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

It was not very hard to do a double album. Nobody thinks it's a good idea if you're an unknown singer-songwriter. But I just kind of feel like if I want something, I can get it. That's the good side of being American, or something, you know?