When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?