It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

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.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.

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

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

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.