I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.