Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.
It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.
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.
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.
I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.
I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.