I feel like I can't fully understand what's happening now until I really understand what's happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you're trying to study so many years' worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming.

I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.

I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?

The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

That people equate being girlie with being nonthreatening … I mean, I can't think of a more blatant example of playing into exactly the thing that we're trying to fight against. I can't be girlie? I think the fact that people are associating being girlie with weakness, that needs to be examined. I don't think that it undermines my power at all.

I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.

The average person tells a few white lies.