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

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

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.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren`t huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

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 and become compassion again.

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

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I`m glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

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

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It`s one way to answer the question, `What is the meaning of life?` I feel music answers it better.

I don`t like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.