Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it..

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier..

The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that..

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than….

I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It ….

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive..

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything.".

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s..

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better..

It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long..

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song..

Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker..

Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in ….

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, ….

I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, whe….

I tend to work on a song, generate ideas, and re-arrange it like five times, and I'm glad I take the time to do that, because I think my original son….

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet..

I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am..

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end..

I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was..