To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don’t feel it, you have to pretend.
People generally let me be me. People are aware that I’m not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
Whatever I’m doing, I’m in that moment and I’m doing it. The rest of the world’s lost. If I’m cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what’s the point of doing it?
When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
The anxiety I feel when I’m late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I’m on time.
I’ve made sacrifices. I’m not anti-fashion but I’ve always had a bit of a punk attitude. That’s important, I think. I do my own thing.
I can’t see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
I don’t get easily bored. I’m not that kind of person.
I don’t like looking outrageous.
Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
My musical career was an accident.
Once a song’s out there, it’s no longer mine. And that’s the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
My father was a very difficult man.
Radio interviews are really snappy and I’m just bad at that. I just close down.
When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.