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.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

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.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

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.