Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.