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But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

I'd like to meet you
In a timeless placeless place
Somewhere out of context
And beyond all consequences.

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

Don't uncork what you can't contain

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

Today I am
a small blue thing
Like a marble
or an eye

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

I didn't go out looking for fights as a kid, but if it was necessary, I'd fight. Fighting was a daily thing where we lived.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.