Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

You never know when you're making a memory.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I want to work and be happy.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.