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    After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

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    Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

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    Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.

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    I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.

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    I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.

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    I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

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    I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

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    I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

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    It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

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    It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

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    I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

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    I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am.

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    Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

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    Negative feelings can either lead to sinking into oneself and disappearing, or they can make you angry and want to prove that you're worthy to be in the conversation.

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    The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.

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    The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

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    When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything.