I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.
But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it.
Every art I do is a collage.
I'm trying so hard to do something that means something and has integrity and cares about talent.
I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.
Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.
People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.
I'm terrible at social media, and it sucks for me, because I know I have fans. But if you go by my Instagram, you would think, 'No one listens to her music!' It's not fair. My Instagram is not my music.
Around 2008 was a really special time culturally. There were a lot of cool things going on in music, in fashion, politically. It was a really hopeful time and a really creative time.
To me, I don't think a song's complete unless it's got a great variety of different textures.
I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.
My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.
I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.
Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music!
I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.
I feel like David Byrne is a great example of someone who is always in the 'now' moment of music and finding reasons to be excited and always seeing what's special about it.
I wrote and recorded 'Outside the War' and 'Run from the Races' while I was nine months pregnant.
There's so many different kinds of songs that could be pop songs. I don't think pop songs should sound the same.
The reason I make music is so that I can influence people and inspire people, but I also want to make music that I feel happy about and that I feel is good. The challenge, which is why it's worth keeping going, is to constantly strive to figure out where the meeting place is.
I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.
