By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.
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.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my —
An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.