When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.

But I think for me, why I was drawn to the piece is, at the core of the story, it's a love story to me - between Ed and Lorraine, between these two families who are asking for help and us who are in the business of giving help.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

Whenever I wore it there were some questions whether the outfit was just too over the top. I'm like, "Do you know who you're dealing with here, and her eccentricities, her style, her flair?" These little things were sometimes those - I love it. I love having a real-life model. But I also do flush it out with my own personal experiences and my own essence, and hopefully they mesh together.

I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.