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 songs come out better.

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.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

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, Pennsylvania at 16.

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

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

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

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 sticking to just one style too strictly.

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

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

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."

Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?

Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late.

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot of sense to us, they might to someone else. Who are we to say?

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

I fought Sugar Ray so often, I almost got diabetes.

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted.