The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist
I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.
Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.
Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.
There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.
I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.
I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.
I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'
When you connect with people, they want to help you.
I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.
How do we let people pay for music?
I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.
I hate being ignored.
Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.
Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.
Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.
Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.
I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.
Thank God my best friend's a therapist.
If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.
