I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

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 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.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

I was in school for jazz voice, which is the dumbest way to spend $35,000 a year. I just felt like a rip-off of good jazz singers. I didn't feel like I was being anything special, and I always wanted to be special. It's like you know you have something inside you that's gonna make you different than everybody else and make you somebody in this life, but you wish you could figure out what it is, because at most things, you're either mediocre or really, really bad.