Musician

I love stretching myself musically.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.

It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it!

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

I just don't fit into the box.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.