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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

"The body is not a reliable friend."

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is."

"When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out."

"When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman."

"As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody."

"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."

"Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor."

"I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious."

"I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful."

"I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything."
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