I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.

America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's because all these lobbyists don't want gun control, they don't want us to have strong environmental safety guards. Young people can become aware of that and they are the most powerful lobby. With a click of a text, you can have millions of people voting for one person.

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.