When I was growing up, I was always looking for the most willfully uncommercial music: Whether it was Captain Beefheart or Frank Zappa or King Crimson, that's what attracted me.

My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.

There are certain topics that I've come back to time and again throughout my career. On 'To the Bone,' there are certain subjects I have touched on before.

It's always lovely to discover that the people that you kind of look up to are actually very down-to-earth people.

I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.