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

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" I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally. "

" When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me. "

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

" I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have. "

" I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast. "

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

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

" Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 am comfortable performing now. I love it! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women. "

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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 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. "