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

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

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

" It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming. "

" My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off. "

" 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. "

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

" I love stretching myself musically. "

" I am comfortable performing now. I love it! "

" I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records. "

" I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point. "

" I just don't fit into the box. "

" All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it. "

" 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. "

" 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 think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean? "

" I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that. "

" I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art. "

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

" Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting. "

" Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done. "

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

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

Anything Is Possible

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 was raised to be a very intelligent housewife. "

" Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. "