The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

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

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.