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    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.

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    I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.

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    I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

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    I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

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    I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

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    I am just your ordinary, average every day sane psycho, supergoddess.

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

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    I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.

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    I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

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    I'd like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it's just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair - only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.

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    I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

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

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    I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

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    I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

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    I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

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    I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.

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    I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.

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    I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me.

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    I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.

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    I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

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    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?

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    I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

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    I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.

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

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    I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

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    I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

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    I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

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    I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

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    I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

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    I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

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

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    Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.

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

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

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    It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.

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    It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

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    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.

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    I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

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    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.

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    I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

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    Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.

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    Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

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    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.

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    Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

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    Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

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    My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

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    Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

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    Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

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    No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.

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    People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.