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I'm Doing It Because I Choose It. And If It's Not Working, I Can Make A Change.

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My Brother Says That I Was Writing Songs About Fate While He Was Off Playing Soccer. Now I Tell Him He's 33 And Being A Professional While I'm Playing Soccer With My Friends. Ha!

I Live With Some Of My Best Friends From High School, Very Commune-like, In My House. It's My Hippie Way Of Life.

As Long As I Can Say What It Is That I Need To Say, Then I'll Fit Whatever I'm Trying To Say Around A Melody.

I'm Lost, But I'm Hopeful.

I Think Everyone's Hungry For The Truth

I Listen To My Records And I Think, 'wow, These Are Really Great Appetizers. I Haven't Even Considered What I'm Going To Order For The Full Entree Meal Yet.'

When We [people] Are Operating From The Belief That We're Not Connected, It Feels So Dangerous And Scary And Vulnerable And Awful.

When I'm Off The Road, My Husband And I Recharge Our Batteries. It's A Day Of Deep Rest And Connection With The Spiritual, And That Can Be Anything - Going For A Walk In Nature, Being In Silence, Burning Incense.

The Joke That You Laid In The Bed That Was Me.

Low Self Esteem

Typically I Go In The Studio And Whatever I'm Contemplating That Day Will Wind Up Being A Song. I Don't Come In With Lyrics... I Just Go In And Let It Happen.

What Influenced Me Was Tori Amos, Who Was Unapologetic About Expressing Anger Through Music, And Sinead O'connor. Those Two In Particular Were Really Moving For Me, And Very Inspiring, Before I Wrote 'jagged Little Pill.'

I Still Indulge In A Glass Of Wine Or Chocolate - Treats Are Mandatory. Without Deviating From The Day-to-day Healthy Diet Once In A While, It Wouldn't Be Sustainable For Me, And That's What I Wanted: An Approach To Eating To Last My Entire Life.

I'm Clearly Most Well Known For My Music. Eventually, Ultimately, I'll Be Writing Books. I'm Still Writing Articles Now. I Just Consider Myself A Writer.

I Started Making Music Because I Could.

I Think God Is In Us. I Think We Manifest God In Every Moment.

I Want To Walk Through Life.

I Never Regret Anything I Do. It's Part Of Who I Am Now, And I Like Who I Am Now.

To Lie To Yourself, And Thereby To Everyone Else.

I Was Taught From A Young Age That I Had To Serve, So That Turned Into Me Thinking I Had To Save The Planet.

With Songwriting I Spend A Lot Of Time Living Life, Accruing All These Experiences, Journaling, And Then By The Time I Get To The Studio I'm Teeming With The Drive To Write.

It's Exciting For People To Define Who They Are In Relation To What I Write - Whether It Be By Loving Or Hating It.

At Some Point, I Would Like To Write A Book And Other Things, But I Work Best When There Is Some Sort Of Deadline In My Own Mind, But Not When Fifty People Or Fifty Million People Are Breathing Down The Back Of My Neck.

I Rejected The God That Was Portrayed As Masculine And Judgmental And Cruel At Times. The Concept Of Us Bring Not Worthy To Receive Him Is Something I Used To Say Every Sunday In Church, And Eventually I Just Couldn't Say It With Any Conviction.

I Didn't Want To Be One Of Those Women Who Wake Up At 63 Years Old And Realize They've Missed The Window Of Opportunity For Marriage And Children.

Being A Sensitive Empath Is A Beautiful Thing As An Artist, And It Fosters A Deep Burning Curiosity About Why We Do The Things We Do.

What Part Of Our History's Reinvented And Under Rug Swept? What Part Of Your Memory Is Selective And Tends To Forget?

Unanswered Questions

I Highly Recommend Getting Older! There's Less Tendency To People-please.

We're Taught To Be Ashamed Of Confusion, Anger, Fear And Sadness, And To Me They're Of Equal Value To Happiness, Excitement And Inspiration.

...and What It All Comes Down To Is That I Haven't Got It All Figured Out Just Yet.

In One Breath, I Can Say That We Are God, But In Another I Have To Say That We Aren't Deities.

I Think There Is No Better Way To Invite A Human Being To View Their Body Differently Than By Inviting Them To Be An Athlete, By Revering One's Body As An Instrument Rather Than Just An Ornament.

I've Been Really Enjoying Writing Articles And Writing Music And Music For Movies.

No-strings Relationships Have Helped Cure Me Of Love Addiction. All My Life I've Been In Long-term Monogamous Relationships. I Had To Break That Pattern By Not Allowing Myself To Have A Relationship For A Year, Stopping Myself From Committing To Men. I Haven't Been Celibate. I've Had Lots Of Dates And Lots Of Sex, But I Haven't Been Pushing To Turn A Date Into A Relationship. This Has Been A Huge Thing For Me.

Once I Know Who I'm Not, Then I'll Know Who I Am.

Music Helps You Find The Truths You Must Bring Into The Rest Of Your Life.

Rest Of Your Life

Your Political Views Really Denote Your Spiritual Views.

When Someone Has A Very Urgent Response, I Think It Just Means That It's Triggering Something In Them That They May Not Necessarily Want To Think Or Talk About - Which I See As A Positive Thing.

Your Choice Of Armor Was Your Intellect.

The People That Were Invested In Me Staying The Same Way After A Decade Will Most Likely By Default Have To Be Disappointed.

To Me The Biggest Irony Of This Lifetime That I'm Living Is That For Someone Who Thrives In The Public Eye In The Creative Ways That I Do, I Actually Don't Enjoy Being In The Public Eye.

Infidelity Is A Deal Breaker For Me. I've Broken Up With People Over It. You Can't Do Monogamy 90 Percent Of The Time.

Running Has Made Being Depressed Impossible. If I'm Going Through Something Emotional And Just Go Outside For A Run, You Can Rest Assured I'll Come Back With Clarity.

I Was Extremely Moved By The Plight Of Tsunami Victims And I Was Inspired To Try To Make A Difference.

Making A Difference

When I Was Younger, I Was Terrified To Express Anger Because It Would Often Kick-start A Horrible Reaction In The Men In My Life. So I Bit My Tongue. I Was Left To Painstakingly Deal With The Aftermath Of My Avoidance Later In Life, In Therapy Or Through The Lyrics Of My Songs.

I'm Doing It Because I Choose It. And If It's Not Working, I Can Make A Change.

I Was Always Such A People-watcher. I Would Sit On Street Corners Alone And Watch People And Make Up Stories About Them In My Head. Then, All Of A Sudden, I Was The One Being Watched.

I Notice That When I Feel The Most Disconnected, Once I'm Done Blaming The Moon And Everything Else, I Can See That I Am So Mired In Identification With Form And Ego And Story And Identity, And That If I Want To, I Can Read Some Scripture Or Read Some Spiritual Book Or Pray Or Meditate Or Sit In The Sun Or Hang Around The Birds And The Dogs, And Get A Real Objective Sense Of What's Really Going On Here. That Usually Softens Things.

And Ultimately The People Who Produce My Records, They Know That They're Here To Serve The Purpose Of Me Expressing Who I Am At This Period Of Time And Augmenting That Or Pulling It Forward And I Love That Process.

When I Pray, I'm Just Talking To What Some People Might Call Our Higher Selves: God, Myself, My Intuition, My Heart. Whatever That Is, That's Where I Go.

I Guess What People Forget Sometimes Is That When I Write Songs, I Write Them Sometimes In About 20 Minutes.

You Are A Worksmith And Who Cares For His Brothers, Whos Not Seduced By Illusions Or Fair Weather Friends.

I'll Be Writing Songs Till I Die. There's Just No Question.

I Have A Profound Empathy For People Who Are In The Public Eye, Whether They Manifest It Themselves Or Whether It Happened By Accident - It Doesn't Matter To Me. I Think There's A Great Misunderstanding Of What It Is To Be Famous.

Music Will Always Be A Part Of My Life. I Love Music And I Don't Care How Many Units I Sell.

When Pain Brings You Down, Don't Be Silly, Don't Close Your Eyes And Cry, You Just Might Be In The Best Position To See The Sun Shine.

Courage And Willingness To Just Go For It, Whether It Is A Conversation Or A Spontaneous Trip Or Trying New Things That Are Scary - It Is A Really Attractive Quality.

I'll Be Writing Records Until I'm Dead, Whether People Like It Or Not!

I Think When Someone Blindly Projects And It's Showing Up In The Form Of Envy Or Hate - And I Actually Think They're Synonymous - That's When I Feel The Most Afraid And Disconnected And Vulnerable. Like Whenever I Don't Feel Safe In My Own Hands, In Terms Of My Not Being Tender Or Merciful With Myself, Or When We're Treating Each Other That Way.

Love Is Thick And It Swallows Me Whole.

I Really Do See That Anywhere I Am, Whether It's Doing Interviews A Hundred In A Row, That Every Situation I'm In, I'm At Choice In The Matter.

I Was Motivated By Just Thinking That If You Had All This External Success That Everyone Would Love You And Everything Would Be Peaceful And Wonderful.

I Don't Believe In Bad. I Believe In Relativity. The Only Way We Can Know What We Call Good Is If There's Also Something We Call Bad.

Kale Is My Best Friend. I Eat Kale Salad. I Put Kale In My Smoothies, Kale In My Soup. Kale, Kale, Kale! I Feel Like Popeye. I Love It. I Definitely Need Variety Or I Get Super Bored, So I Have To Mix It Up With Different Sauces And Tahini Or Whatever.

I Did Commit To Myself That I Would Not Jump Back Into Being The Workaholic That I Can Be Before I Gave Myself An Honest Opportunity To Create The Marriage Of My Dreams And To Create The Beginning Of The Family Of My Dreams, And That Took A Hot Second.

I Would Never Judge Someone's Intrigue With The Spoils Of Fame, Because I Went Through That.

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There Were A Lot Of People Who Were A Little Afraid Of The Rage Or Blaming Stance I Was Taking, And Find What I Am Doing Now More Refreshing.

Looking For Approval Or Blaming Others Or Feeling Like A Victim. Whenever I Feel Myself Doing That I Try To Stop And See Myself As Someone Who's A Creator In More Ways Than Just What The Word Typically Means.

Trauma Happens In Relationships, So It Can Only Be Healed In Relationships. Art Can't Provide Healing. It Can Be Cathartic And Therapeutic But A Relationship Is A Three-part Journey.

It's Not Hard To Feel Afraid And Insecure. I Still Fight An Inner-critic Voice, Definitely. I Hear It A Lot.

I Believe We've Been Given Free Will, And We Can Take Responsibility For Our Own Lives And For Creating Our Own Environments - Which I Think At Times Can Be A Little Much For People To Deal With.

I Am What I Am Are You What You Are Or What?

I Make Up New Lyrics To Well-known Lullabies. Mostly Because I Don't Actually Know A Lot Of The Lyrics.

First I Was 'angry,' Then 'spiritual.' Now I Don't Know What I Am.

I Felt Like I Was Making A Record Under The Radar, And That Is My Favorite Way To Do Anything.

In My Opinion, I Think Sarcasm And Humor In A Song, Without Turning It Into A Novelty Song, Is Really Charming.

I Hear You're Losing Weight Again, Mary Jane. Do You Ever Wonder Who You're Losing It For?

I'm Saying What A Lot Of People Would Want To Say But Are Too Embarrassed.

I Try To Keep A Low Profile In General. Not With My Art, But Just As A Person.

When We Think Of Digitally Disconnecting And Inviting Presence Into Our Lives, We Are Creating The Conditions Of Integration Within And Between.

I Salute You For Your Courage, And I Applaud Your Perseverance, And I Embrace You For Your Faith In The Face Of Adversarial Forces.

Over The Last Couple Of Years, I've Really Worked Toward Balancing My Life Out More, Having A Little Bit More Time With Friends, Family And My Boyfriend. There Was A Period Of Time When They Were Way Down The List. It Was All About Music And Touring And If Everything Fell By The Wayside, So Be It.

The Person Who Knows How Will Always Have A Job. The Person Who Knows Why Will Always Be His Boss.

I'm A Bit Of An Alchemist Sorceress. I've Collected Probably 1500 Oils From Around The Planet Over The Last Ten Years. I'm Kind Of Obsessed With The Sensuality Of It.

Making A Movie Requires 20 To 500 People To Make And A Lot Of Money And The Stakes Are A Lot Higher.

What Makes Me Feel Alive Is Community, Connectedness. Certainly Family, Parenting, Relationships, Friendship. All The Way Into Colleague Relationships And Relationship With Spirit, Relationship With One's Own Self And Inner Child, And Animals, Earth, Planet. Fostering And Nurturing And Really Focusing On Connection - Connection In Relationship With Other And My Own Self And God. When I Don't Feel Connected In All Those Three Areas, Life Is Not Very Good.

I See The Whole Concept Of Generation X Implies That Everyone Has Lost Hope.

Writing The Record For Me - Every Record Is Almost A Surprise. When People Ask Me, What Are The Themes You Want To Grapple With On This One? I Have No Idea Until The Record's Finished.

Who I Am Inside Determines How I Feel About My Body Instead Of The Other Way Around

I Started Playing Piano When I Was 6. And I Knew That Wanted To Be Involved In That Form Of Expression, Whether It Was Through Music, Or Acting, Or Dancing, Or Painting, Or Writing.

Long Hair Is A Security Blanket For Me. I Cut It Short A Few Years Ago And I Really Never Want To Do That Again. When I Do Cut It, I Cut It Myself.

Breakups Are A Horrible Thing For Almost Everybody I Know. For Someone Who Is A Love Addict, It's Debilitating.

I Hope That There Is A Very Confused 14 Year Old Girl Out There Who Hears Me Speak Or Hears Me Sing And Derives Some Sort Of Strength From That I Heard That When I Was 14 That's Exactly What Happened.

But Once I Acclimated And Really Used Fame For What It Was Offering Me As A Tool To Serve My Life Purpose Of Inspiring And Contributing, Then It Started To Get Fun Again.

I Just Feel Compelled To Continue To Be Transparent. It Just Really Levels The Playing Field And Eradicates The Shame That I Have, Or That One Might Have, About Being Human. So I'm Going To Just Keep Going.

Level Playing Field

But I Love To Entertain. My Vocation Is To Accrue All These Experiences, To Write About Them, To Get Them Out Of My System, To Not Get Sick, And Then To Share Them Publicly.

I'm About 90 Percent Vegan. I Think Veganism Is Really Well Suited For Training, At Least For Me Anyway.

The More I Know The Less Tortured I Am.

When I'm In Pain And Grief And Despair, My Throat Is Clenched And My Heart Hurts.

Is She Perverted Like Me? Would She Go Down On You In A Theatre?

I Started Writting Songs When I Was Really Little Because There Were Things I Could Say Through Songs That I Couldn't Verbalize Any Other Way. Writting Was Something I Had To Do.

In The Past, I Had Workaholic Issues.

I Am A Firm Believer That One Way To Become Enlightened Is To Be So Relaxed, As Relaxed As You Possibly Can Be.

I Do Feel Blessed To Be In The Public Eye So I Can Share What I Believe. But I Think It Would Be Extremely Disappointing If I Were To Count On It To Provide Happiness. I've Come To Realize That Any Time I Do That, The Fulfillment Is Short-lived At Best.

So Forgive Me, Love, If I Cry In Your Shower. So Forgive Me, Love, For The Salt In Your Bed. So Forgive Me, Love, If I Cry All Afternoon.

Europe Seems A Little Softer, But In America It's Harsh. In L.a., Where I Live, It's All About Perfectionism.

I'm A Liability To Them - I'm A Woman, I'm Empowered, I'm An Artist. I've Had Executives Who Can't Come To My Shows They're So Scared Of Me. I've Been A Thorn In Many People's Sides Just By Existing.

For The Ocean Is Big And My Boat Is Small. Find The Courage.

To Whom Do I Owe The First Apology? No One's Been Crueler Than I've Been To Me.

Low Self Esteem

I Get Angry At Myself For Staying In Relationships Way Too Long.

There Is Consequence Of Our Forgetting Who We Are. Forgetting That We're Able To Create Our Environment, From Our Health To Economy To War. Something Can Be Done About Everything We Perceive As Bad, If We So Choose. If We Are Aware Of The Concept Of Compassion.

I Have Been Running So Sweaty My Whole Life Urgent For A Finish Line And I Have Been Missing The Rapture This Whole Time Of Being Forever Incomplete

I Can Be In The Worst Pms, Mercury In Retrograde, Most Awful Circumstance - And Then If My Girlfriends And I Are Giggling About It, Everything's Okay.

Down The Road, I'll Probably Have A Kid Or Two Or Three. And There Will Probably Be Political Events Or Spiritual Things To Comment On, And Humor.

I Love The Universality Of Music And How It Can Viscerally Connect People From Culture To Culture, Regardless Of Anything. It Kind Of Levels Everything Out And Connects Us. That Universal Sound Thing Is A Big Deal To Me.

Profanity Is Merely An Expression Of One's Emotions

All I Can Promise Myself And Everyone Else Is That This Record Is A Snapshot Of Thisperiod In My Life. It Will Be That By Default.

There's A Continuity Between What I Care About In Any Form: I Care About It In My Music, In Article-writing, In How I Dress, In How I Live, In My Relationships, In How I Navigate Paparazzi, How I Decorate My Home. There's Such A Continuity Between Everything That I Don't Really Care What Form It Shows Up In.

That I Would Be Loved Even When I Numb Myself. That I Would Be Good Even When I Am Overwhelmed. That I Would Be Loved Even When I Was Fuming. That I Would Be Good Even If I Was Clingy.

Most Of The Songs Are, In A Roundabout Way, Actually Addressed To Myself, There's A Certain Aspect Of The Songs That's Very Confessional, Very Unadulterated...it Was A Very Unfettered, Spiritual Experience.

When I Start Writing Songs And It Turns Into An Overly Belabored Intellectual Process, I Just Throw It Out.

I Remember How Beautiful It Was To Fall Asleep On Your Couch And Cry In Front Of You For The First Time. You Were The Best Platform From Which To Jump Beyond Myself. What Was Wrong With Me?

I Could Get Away With Not Taking Care Of Myself As A Bachelorette But As A Mom I Can't.

I'm A Leave-the-bathroom-door-open Nudist, Which Is Sometimes Disconcerting For My Friends.

I Want To Walk Through Life Instead Of Being Dragged Through It.

Walking Through Life

I'll Write Records Until I'm Dead. And Then Maybe Even After That!

As A Teen, I Was Both Anorexic And Bulimic.

I'm Excited About There Being More Of A Sisterhood These Days. Back In The '90s There Was A Lot Of Hate - The Women I Looked Up To As Artists Were Dissing Me! It's Not So Patriarchal These Days - There's More Love And A Lot Less Hate!

The Whole Idea Of Emotions Being Something We Can't Escape As Humans, But That Deep Suffering That Comes From Resisting Them, We Can Move Out Of That Just By Not Resisting Anymore. But It Takes A Really Brave Warrior Soul To Sit There In These Emotions That Admittedly Don't Feel Good In The Body.

What's That Line From Ts Eliot? To Arrive At The Place Where You Started, But To Know It For The First Time. I'm Able To Write About A Breakup From A Different Place. Same Brokenness. Same Rock-bottom. But A Little More Informed, Now I'm Older. Thank God For Growing Up.

The More Vulnerable And The More Confused The Song Is, The Equal And Opposite Effect Is How I Feel After Having Written It.

They're Different Kinds Of Challenges Depending Upon What Phase Of Life I'm In.

The Whole Celebrity Thing Is Not Something I'm Overly Interested In. I Don't Pop Up At Parties. It's Just Not My Thing.

I Think Some People Think I'm A Smarty-pants. Some People Think I'm Intense, Some People Think I'm Super-esoteric And Nuts.

I Would Not Have Discredited Every One Of Their Compliments. It Was Your Approval I Wanted, Your Congratulations.

Congratulations

Low Self Esteem

Whether You’re Checked In Or Checked Out, You’re Always On A Spiritual Journey.

Spiritual Journey

Life Has A Funny Way Of Helping You Out When You Think That Everything's Gone Wrong.

And If I Had A Preference, It Would Be To Be Able To Not Be In The Studio Until 4 In The Morning.

My Yearn For Home Is Broadened Patriotism Expanded By Callings From Beyond So I Pack My Things Nothing Precious All Things Sacred

Well, As A Kid I Did Not Get Shakespeare. I Just Never Understood It.

Let's Grease The Wheel Over Tea, Let's Discuss Things In Confidence. Let's Be Outspoken, Let's Be Ridiculous, Let's Solve The World's Problems.

I'm Quite Obsessed With The Idea Of Nailing The Girl Friendship. It's Such An Art, So Delicate.

I Think It's Irresponsible When Celebrities Imply They're Doing It All Themselves. My Son Has Aunties And Uncles Around All The Time, And My Husband Is My Hero. He's Really Full-on. I Couldn't Do It Any Other Way.

How Long Before My Dignity Is Reclaimed?

Unanswered Questions

When I Was Producing On My Own, I Was Doing It In Order To - In A Very Patriarchal Entertainment Industry, Let Alone Planet - Very Much Hell-bent On Trying To Prove To Myself, If Nothing Else, That I Could Do It As A Woman.

I Wish People Could Acheive What They Think Would Bring Them Happiness In Order For Them To Realize That Thats Not Really What Happiness Is.

I Thought The More Famous I Became, The More Friendships I Would Have, But The Opposite Was True.

Ageism Works In Both Directions. As A Teenager In The Public Eye, People Would Talk Condescendingly To Me. When You Get Older There's This Feeling That You Have To Start Carving Up Your Face And Body. Right Now I'm In The Middle Ground - I Think Women In Their Thirties Are Taken Seriously.

If Someone Hates Or Loves Something, Then Right On. I Can't Rob Them Of That. I'm Not Going To Try And Change Their Mind. Something's Been Triggered In Them To React So Emotionally.

I Firmly Believe That The Only Reason Why I'm On This Planet, The Only Reason Why I Live, Breathe, And Exist Is, That It's My Duty To Be As Honest As Possible In My Art.

You Live, You Learn, You Love, You Learn, You Cry, You Learn, You Lose, You Learn, You Bleed, You Learn, You Scream, You Learn

In My Life, Anyway, Anytime That I Judge Something To Be Rigidly Right Or Wrong, It Comes From Fear.

Well Life Has A Funny Way Of Sneaking Up On You When You Think Everything's Okay And Everything's Going Right And Life Has A Funny Way Of Helping You Out When You Think Everything's Gone Wrong And Everything Blows Up In Your Face

My Parents Offered Me The Idea Of Ceilinglessness. There Was No Limit In Terms Of What Was Possible; No Messages Sent To Me To Say That I Couldn't Do Anything.

All Of My Unconscious Fears Were In My Face About Letting Go Of The Current Identity. A Lot Of The Thoughts That Came Up Were Fear-based And False, So I Had To Work To Let Them Go.

There Is No Better Feeling Than When You Write Something You Know Is A Piece Of You And That, At Some Point, Is Going To Communicate With Someone Else.

I Was Left To Painstakingly Deal With The Aftermath Of My Avoidance Later In Life, In Therapy Or Through The Lyrics Of My Songs.

I Sabotage Myself For Fear Of What My Bigness Could Do.

Low Self Esteem

I Understand That People Are Afraid. Because I Think Censorship Is About Fear. It's Just Fear Being Projected Onto Art.

For Four To Six Months At A Time, I Would Barely Eat. I Lived On A Diet Of Melba Toast, Carrots, And Black Coffee.

I Know That I'm Deeply, Spiritually, Profoundly Philosophical And I Also Know That I'm About The Flakiest Person You're Gonna Meet.

My Own Approach Has Always Been To Push Intense Emotions Down And Attempt To Deal With Them Later.

Intense Emotions

I've Been Doing A Lot Of Different Cross-training And Kickboxing And Capoeira And Kite Surfing, And I've Just Really Been Back To What I Consider My Original Athletic Self.

America's A Very Traumatized Society.

The Ego Is A Fascinating Monster.

I Didn't Have High Self-esteem When I Was A Teen-ager, As I Think Most Teen-agers Don't.

I'll Keep Evolving And Put That Into My Songs.

What I Wouldn't Give To Find A Soul Mate, Someone Else To Catch This Drift.

When I'm Really, Really Angry, If I'm Privileged Enough To Be Next To Someone Who Can Hold My Anger, I'll Definitely Take Them Up On Holding The Bucket.

So Many Boys, So Little Time.

In A Perfect World, There Would Be No Censorship, Because There Would Be No Judgement.

In A Perfect World, There Would Be No Censorship, Because There Would Be No Judgement. I Find The Hypocritical Aspect Disconcerting, To Say The Least. We Can Show People Being Murdered On Television, But I'm Not Able To Say "chickenshit" In Public. At The Same Time, I Understand That People Are Afraid. Because I Think Censorship Is About Fear. It's Just Fear Being Projected Onto Art.

Anything I Do Has To Be Directly Related To My Music. If It Isn't, I Don't Really See A Point To It.

These Precious Illusions In My Head Did Not Let Me Down When I Was Defenseless, And Parting With Them Is Like Parting With Invisible Best Friends.

Every Time I Scratch My Nails Down Someone Else's Back, I Hope You Feel It.

When I Was 11 Years Old And I Was On A Road Trip With My Family. I Turned To My Dad And Said, "do You Believe In Adam And Eve?" And He Said He Didn't Think So. I Remember That Felt Like A Slap In The Face, Because If My Parents Questioned Adam And Eve, Then They Potentially Questioned Everything Within Catholicism. Eventually That Idea Led To My Feeling Liberated, But At That Time It Was Very Scary.

A Feeling Is Not Bottomless. Once Felt All The Way Through,a Great Peace Greets You There

Anytime There's Separatism Going On. It Happens All The Time, Because The Illusion Before Us Is That We Are Separate. It Gives Us This Sense Of Egoic Identity, Which Is Lovely In Its Own Way.

Peace Of Mind For Five Minutes, That's What I Crave.

It's A Joke To Think That Anyone Is One Thing. We're All Such Complex Creatures. But If I'm Going To Be A Poster Child For Anything, Anger's A Gorgeous Emotion. It Gets A Bad Rap, But It Can Make Great Changes Happen.

At One Point, I Was Just Perceived As Only Being Angry, But Now I'm Being Perceived As Angry, Peaceful, And Spiritual.

Canada Has A Passive-aggressive Culture, With A Lot Of Sarcasm And Righteousness. That Went With My Weird Messianic Complex. The Ego Is A Fascinating Monster. I Was Taught From A Young Age That I Had To Serve, So That Turned Into Me Thinking I Had To Save The Planet.

I Don't Want To Be Your Other Half. I Believe That One And One Make Two.

There's Cleanliness To How I Eat Now. I'm Much More In Tune With My Body, So Now That I'm So In Tune Based On Having Become A Semivegan, I Can Tell What Foods Affect Energy Levels. I Can Tell When I've Been Eating Particularly High Nutrient Foods Or I Can Tell When My Glycemic Levels Are All Over The Place.

Partnership Is The Way. Dictatorial Win-lose Is So Old-school.

I Find As An Artist If I'm Not Expressed Relatively Consistently, I Get Really Depressed.

I Think The Bible Is Hugely Patriarchal. There Are So Many Sexist Comments And Homophobic Comments And Comments That Are Not In Keeping With Nurturing And Loving The Human Spirit.

If I Could Sell 500 Million Records Every Time, It Would Be Great. But I've Also Had The Luxury Experience Of Having It When I Was A Teenager, In A Very Kind Of Model Version Of It.

Freedom Lies At The Heart Of My Willingness To Lose Everything

I Think It's Child Abuse To Have Someone In The Public Eye Too Young. Society Basically Values Wealth And Fame And Power At The Cost Of Well-being. In The Case Of A Child, It's At The Cost Of Someone's Natural Development. It's Already Hard Enough To Develop.

How About Not Equating Death With Stopping?

The Thing I Always Default To Is That I'll Always Be Here To Write Songs.

I Have As Much Rage As You Have, I Have As Much Pain As You Do, I've Lived As Much Hell As You Have, And I've Kept Mine Bubbling Under For You.

Beauty Is Now Defined By Your Bones Sticking Out Of Your Decolletage. For That To Be The Standard Is Really Perilous For Women.

My Greatest Environments In Which I Can Grow, Or Grow Up, Is In Personal Romantic Relationships With A Man.

Romantic Relationship

I Grew Up In A Very Masculine Environment. So I Was Around A Lot Of Men, My Brothers And Their Friends. There Was Just A Lot Of Guys Around.

Why Are You So Petrified Of Silence, Here Can You Handle This? Did You Think About Your Bills, Your Ex, Your Deadlines Or When You Think You're Gonna Die? Or Did You Long For The Next Distraction.

It's When Someone Has An Agenda Of Their Own For The Record That It Doesn't Work For Me.

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