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

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

I'm 41, I'm a woman, not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.