The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.

Women shouldn’t deny their dark side. Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they’re beautiful. You’ll have to approach them. Drink a glass of wine with them, take them for a walk on the beach, examine yourself.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.