I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from the heart.
There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.
I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe.
Sometimes I'll look back at old pictures where I'm a little heavy and dressed funny and think, 'How did I get chicks all the time?'
I'm able to switch gears at any moment.
I don't want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame.
I love being home. I play with my dogs.
In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek.
You need a big team to support a career.
I don't think I could make a pop album.
'American Idol' is a machine. It's a machine that's making a lot of money, that's selling a lot of product. It's 'American Marketing.'
If you want to be famous, you can.
You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.
It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.
I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.
I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world.
I'm extremely hard to work with.
I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.
I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own.
I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.
I usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so husky.
I told my mom I was gay when I was 16, and my mom said with her heavy Brazilian accent, 'OK, but at least look good at it.'
I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.
