I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and….

I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people….

I went to New York to be where the beautiful people were and it didn't disappoint me. It's so open. It's a great platform to do your own thing or sta….

I am transgender, so 'he' is not appropriate and 'she' is problematic. I haven't been one to wage war with society to force people to address me a ce….

I think what everyone can do is start creating spaces and forums, talk to peers, friends and family, and start deconstructing these things we take fo….

I'm always feeling excruciatingly embarrassed after a concert; it's such an unnatural thing to do. On one hand, it's so unnatural to step in front of….

My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing arou….

There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I….

I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as ….

I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. That's what has always drawn ….

I just feel like [creativity] is a reflection of the world around me and I don't think you can divorce yourself from that. So I don't really think in….

You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if ….

Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women..

No matter how public your work is, it's just a relationship with yourself. And you have to create a little sacred space inside yourself to treasure t….

When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing. We had singing class and again,….

I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. And that's what has always dr….

I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep exploring and expressing thei….

Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic mus….

Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is repressing and oppr….

The creative process is just a process and you can't really separate it from life. Growing your hair is a creative process. Your body is creating hai….

History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just women but men - we're asking men to….