When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.

Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.

I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.

We tend to seek closure and completeness.

You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation

I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion.' I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.

I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.

I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.

One is punished best for one's virtues.

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.

I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.