"I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned."

"I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music."

"A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music."

"I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz."

"I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way."

"Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community."

"Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world."

"There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics."