So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

I think that's my hope for a lot of the feminist movement is that the gender thing sort of stops being the selling point, if that makes any sense. We're just people making art, and that's how this process has felt to me.

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.

Show me how big your brave is.

I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.