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I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly it. I can still dance, too, but it hurts now!

I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.

I've been hurt quite a few times.

I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.