Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

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.

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 feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

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 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.

As long as you have imagination, you never need to work. You never get bored. You could just walk around and go to museums and check out new movies. You could be busy in New York city for 10,000 years.