When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.
The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.
