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It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

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First I was 'angry,' then 'spiritual.' Now I don't know what I am.

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I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

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Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

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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.

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I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

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Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

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What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

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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.

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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.

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I want to walk through life.

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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.

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I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

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Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

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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.

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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.

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