My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'
I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.
I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.
My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.