There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

I'm the queen of the nerds.

Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.