The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.
I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.
With Twitter and Instagram and all of these vehicles where fans can directly interact with you and get your attention, there's a little bit of an entitlement. Like, "Why won't you follow me or write me back?" Well, if I write you back, then I have to write everyone back.
I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.
If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.
When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.
Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.
We've learned to see the world in gasps.