"We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band."

"Women are still second-class citizens."

"I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules."

"Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world."

"I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style."

"The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level."

"I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."