Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation.

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.