I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

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

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.