The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

I have also Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and I wouldn't have survived that if not for music. So I think for me, music was a soothing thing and it was also a place where you could say all the stuff that you couldn't say anywhere else.

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.