From sage on the stage to guide on the side.
Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.
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.
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 do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there. " It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.
Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but I don't believe that her conviction was for the greater good.
I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.
Lemurs are extraordinarily leapers. I mean they are just really going from tree to tree and then if there is not a tree, they just come down to the ground very gracefully. But it is the music that makes them seem to be dancing. They are basically getting from one place to another and that's just natural for them. They are just natural acrobatic dancers, just the way they move. It's beautiful!
Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!