I'm glad I got a record contract, because all of a sudden everything you were doing before that made you a stupid person now makes you a smart person.

I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.

There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

I'd been knocking on record companies' doors for so long, and I had gone on a lot of auditions. It's weird when you go to those auditions through the Village Voice or something. You never know what to expect. You just press Floor 3 on the elevator and pray that it's not... You know, anyone can place an ad, so it's really freaky.

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.

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.

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.