There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.