My Parents Taught Me I Could Be

We All Make Judgments On People, But Some Are Much More Brutal Than Others. It's Easy To Say, 'ya Know, I'm Not Crazy About What She's Wearing,' But You Don't Have To Be Nasty About It, And You Don't Have To Be Public About It.

A Girl Playing Rock And Roll, It's Saying I Own My Sexuality And I'm Going To Tell You What I'm Going To Do. And I Think People Just Find That Threatening.

I Tend To Keep My Private Life Private. I Think It's Important To Have Mystique. It's Important To Keep People Thinking And Guessing, And You Want Everyone To Think You're Singing To Them.

Radio Has Changed, There Was A Little Bit Of Difference Around The Country And Now That Is Gone And Everything Is Uniform. That Is Not The Only Place It's Happening In Music, There's A Lot Of Consolidation.

Performance-wise, You Really Need To Be Down In The Trenches; You Need To Do The Hard Work, For A Lot Of Reasons: To Build Yourself As A Performer, To Get A Sense Of The Audience, To Work Hard And To Wonder, 'do I Really Want To Do This?'