Musician

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.

Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube.