I Try To Be Authentic - But

I've Always Straddled A Weird Line - There's A Lot Of Mainstream Stuff That I Love. At The Same, I Still Feel Like An Outsider. I'm The Outsider Who's On The Inside.

When You Have Endless Time, You Take All Day To Go To The Grocery Store. But, If You Have To Be At Work For 14 Hours A Day, You Manage Your Time Better. I Know I Do.

I'm Not Doing It To Pander To People. I Just Always Knew What I Liked Versus What I Don't Like. I Never Liked Things With Too Many Zippers Or Spikes And Stuff. That Weirds Me Out. I Like Things That Are Pretty. And I Think It's Great To Be Pretty. I Like Being Feminine. I Think It's Good To Be Feminine. We Don't Need To Look Like Men Or Dress Like Men Or Talk Like Men To Be Powerful. We Can Be Powerful In Our Own Way, Our Own Feminine Way.

I Feel Like Making Music Because - And This Has Much To Do With The Way I Was Able To Make This Record - There's More Of Myself In It.

I've Been Writing Music Since I Was About Eight. I Would Write Sporadically. I Wrote A Lot Of Music In High School. I Guess The Oldest Song On The Record ("i Thought I Saw Your Face") Is About Eight Years Old. It's The Old "i Had My Whole Life To Write My First Album And Six Months To Write The Second One." I Did, To Some Degree, But Actually, A Lot Of The Songs That Ended Up On The Record, I Wrote Really Recently. So It Varies.