My mom is a sculptress.

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, "Okay, I want to do that."

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

I've always been very politically interested from a very young age and I hadn't felt that was something I could begin to bring into my songwriting because I hadn't felt I'd reached the stage, that I had the skill with language enough, yet, to do that.

Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.