You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

Even to survive and have everyone in good health now is really precious. Bands half our age don't even get that lucky sometimes. It's good to practice gratitude, as they say. I used to be so ungracious, I wasn't even aware that I should be feeling grateful! Now I actually try and put it into my daily thought: Be grateful. It's not always so easy.

It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer...you'll rule the world.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.