I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle..

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't..

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom..

I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me..

You make me feel like a candy apple, red and horny..

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain..

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born..

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger an….

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence..

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music..

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . ..

The monsters are in your own head.

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud..

I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love….

Just watching my cats can make me happy..

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good..

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. T….