For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at me.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come