I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

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 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.

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

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.

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'm getting offers for movie stuff. But it shows how facile the movie industry is. I mean, they don't know I can act. I guess they like my record and think I have a nice complexion? I don't know. How many people work and wait tables to get that break? I really don't feel entitled. Everything's so corrupt, you know? Especially the tastemakers. I trust the American public much more than the tastemakers.