Michelle shocked

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't...

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than...

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.