If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

It's time for artists to take their music back.

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

Sure I got a mouth on me.

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

Sometimes a song that didn't make one record will stay in my head for so long and just won't go away. I take that as a hint to keep 'em close and not forget about them.

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

All I do is party.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

I can't stand too long of a record.