• I think most people look better naked than clothed.
  • Whenever I hear about parents wanting to prohibit their child from doing something innocuous simply because the child might be bullied about it, I cringe. I'm glad my parents didn't see things that way. Yes, I dressed weird and liked music other kids didn't and was vocal about wanting to be a composer when I grew up and was bullied for it, but at least I was allowed to be me.
  • Whenever I have to do a murder scene with someone, I have this overwhelming urge to befriend my "killer." If I did an onscreen or onstage sex scene, I'd probably never want to see that person again because it would just be awkward.
  • I feel weird seeing myself on film. I actually really don't like how I look on camera. But I keep auditioning and planning music videos because I love the whole process.
  • Whenever someone says "Sorry for the inconvenience," I wonder if they secretly really enjoy the inconvenience they are causing.
  • I associate the sound of pizzicato strings with the idea of plants who have suddenly developed the ability to walk and are sneaking around the forest on a secret mission. I've never sorted out what the secret mission was supposed to be.
  • I kind of empathize with celebrities who are said to be assholes, not because I think it's okay to treat others badly, but because I really don't know how I'd deal with people wanting to talk to me ALL. THE. DAMN. TIME. Sometimes a person just wants to go for a walk or get a cup of coffee without someone else bothering them. I think I'd snap after awhile, too. 
  • On that note, if I did see a celebrity I admired in public, I probably wouldn't approach them. After one of their shows, maybe, if they were out and about. But as tempting as it would be to approach, say, Amanda Palmer or Wes Anderson in a local coffee shop if they happened to be there, my desire to not be the person who interrupted someone's nice quiet cup of coffee would override my desire to meet them.
  • I sometimes wish I could remember being a newborn. My friend just had a baby, and I love watching him trying to process all the new information he's getting, since he really doesn't have any reference points yet. Everything is new to him. I sometimes wish I remembered what that was like. I bet I could write a pretty crazy song with those memories.
  • Even as a fairly vocal feminist, I really don't feel like I've had that much sexism directed towards me. Some, yes, but it's not something I experience every day, every week, or even once a month. I usually feel like there are other factors in play if things don't go how I want them to, such as my skill set, personality, mannerisms.
  • I don't want to be "protected" or "taken care of" by anyone who doesn't see me as a strong, capable person who can take care of herself.
  • I'll probably never write a break-up song because I don't want to think of the break-up every time I'm onstage. 
  • However, I will say that "The Full Moon at Midnight" and "The Muse Erotic" were inspired by specific people who were in my life at the time I wrote them. I feel like those songs have taken on lives of their own and I don't think of those people when I perform those songs now. That could also be because those songs were never JUST about those people or the situations that inspired them. They had other meanings as well, and continue to take on meanings.