I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

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

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

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

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.