When You Get A Certain Amount Of

I Just Like Food Too Much, And I Don't Want To Change. I Spent So Much Of Childhood Trying To Change, And I Just Got Sick Of It ... I Don't Want To Look Like Britney Spears, I Just Don't Want To. She's Hideous.

In Moments When I Question If I Should Be Having Kids, I Think Of All Those Phone Calls From My Sister-in-law, In Which, 3,000 Miles Away, I Hear My Nephews Screaming For Her Attention. I Tell Her I Have To Go Because I Am Packing To Leave For Europe, And Her Tone Flatlines: "that Must Be Nice."

The Thing About Being On The Majors, From The Beginning, Going Into This, I Was Like, "i'm Not Going To Be Treated Like A Factory," Because That's Never The Way It Was Done Before. You're Talking About A Major Label, We're Talking About Serious Business; You're Not An Artist Anymore, You're A Business, You Have To Work In Terms Of Product, You Have To Release A Product, And I Don't Really Think That Way At All.

We Had So Many Milestones In America. We Were On Our Way To Universal Healthcare. We Had Gay Marriage. We Were Talking About Gender Fluidity And Trans Issues Openly And Discussing Them With Respect. It Was Almost To The Point Where Educating People About Transgender Rights Wasn't An Issue. We Were Including Trans People As A Normal Part Of Our Conversations Instead Of Seeing Their Presence As This Shocking Thing To The System. We Forgot That Those Things Can Be Taken Away From You Because There Are People In The World That, For Whatever F - King Reason, Can't Live And Let Live.

Do I Ever Think Gossip Will Be Really Massive In America? No, I Don't Think It'll Happen - And That's Fine. It's Kind Of Nice Because I Get To Experience Everything At Once. I Get To Come Home And It Not Be Weird, Like In Paris Or Something. It Is Nice To Be Completely Anonymous.