You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically.

I never felt like I was forced to do anything.

I've always been singing and making noise. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid. My mom would get very frustrated with me because I would just sit around and make noises.

I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.

I never learned to play properly either, I was a little bit too lazy for that, but as long I could express myself in a way that had sound, I was happy.

I've been collaborating a lot, because I like working that way. It's fun and keeps you moving forward.

I really do know what I want with my life. I think that keeps me from making bad decisions and spending time doing stuff I don't enjoy.

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.

I have quite a broad taste in music.

6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hangovers to coffeeanother vagabond lost to love.

THE AMPUTATED HEARTBEATS HARDER

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse our gestures our digestive tracts the lunar and seasonal cycles.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

That was one of the reasons I took the role [of Mayor Amanda Rosewater in Defiance] - to be a part of something groundbreaking interested me.

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.

He who gives while he lives, gets to know where it goes.