"I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time."

"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."

"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."

"Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted."

"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."

"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."

"I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."

"The art of living is discovering that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."