I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.

What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter.

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.