I Love To Make People Feel Like

I've Had A Ton Of Fast-food Jobs - It Changes Your Approach To Human Interaction Forever.

Barack Obama Was Amazing, But He Wasn't Perfect. We All Know That. He Was The Closest Thing To Perfect America's Ever Had. We Were Basking In The Glow. We Forgot That There's Always Going To Be A Backlash Within A Movement Every Time. When I Think About Race, There Were A Lot Of Pockets Of People That Were Still Living In Fear Under The Obama Administration, But We Were In This Blissful Celebration Mode. Now We Are Constantly Reminded That, Although There Are Lots Of Good People In The World, There Are Just As Many Horrible People.

There Is Something To Be Said For People Who Have To Work Hard, Be Creative, Produce What They Have With Little - Or No - Means. Those Of Us From Poor Homes Have The Advantage Of Thinking For Ourselves And Of Knowing That When Times Get Hard, Things Could Always Be Worse.

I Worshipped Ethel Merman And I Worshipped Ethel Merman A Lot. It's Incredible - Ethel Merman Was A Conventional Singer. Her Naming Her Child Ethel Merman, Jr., Was, To Me, One Of The Coolest Feminist Things.

I Always Was Really Confident About Myself, About My Voice, Myself As A Person, My Body, All Of Those Things, But As A Songwriter - I Just Didn't Identify As A Songwriter At All.