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I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.