"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant."

"I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context."

"I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way."

"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

"You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends."

"The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music."

"I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times."