The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.

I still consider myself a feminist.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.