 For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically. |
| When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone. |
| Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff. |
| The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. |
| I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal. |
| If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me. |
| The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19? |
| I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it. |
| I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed. |
| I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right. |
| Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them. |
| I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible. |
| Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected. |
| I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while. |
| I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it. |
| I'm not a control freak. |
| What's really good is African drum music. |
| I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons. |
| Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears. |
| I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how. |
