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

If you're dissatisfied anywhere, New York is the place to be. If you're unhappy at college in Topeka, I don't know what there is to distract yourself with, you know? So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself.

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.