I Do What I Want. I Try

What I Have Found Is, So Much Of That Is Like A Chinese Finger Trap: The More You Play To The Dark, The More You Will Get Trapped In The Dark, And If You Just Play To The Light And Focus On The People That Don't Misunderstand You And Focus On The Audience That Does Celebrate You And Focus On The People Who Aren't Trying To Tear You Down, All That Other Stuff Eventually Erases Itself Because It Has Nothing To Feed On.

I Never Wanted To Grow A Thicker Skin; I Felt A Real Sense Of Pride In My Thin Skin, And In A Weird Way, I Still Do, Because It's My Thin Skin That Allows Me To Empathize With Other People. It's The Thing That Allows Me To Create Vulnerable Art. It's The Thing That Allows Me To Create Other Feelings And Make Songs That Actually Grab People And Touch People. I Feel Like I've Spent My Life Fighting That Thicker Skin Because I Don't Want To Become An Embittered Asshole.

If I Were A Guy, It Would Be, You Know, Just A Different Set Of Problems I Have To Carry Along.

Men Find Powerful Women So Threatening, And Finding A Partner Was Starting To Look Laughable, Because I Would Be Really Attracted To Guys And They Would Just Be So Threatened And I Didn't Like Feeling Threatening, I Didn't Want To Feel Threatened, I Didn't Want To Feel Like I Was Towering Over Anybody.

The Challenge Is To Just Focus On What's Actually Happening, Focus On The People Who Get It, And Focus On The People Who Are Listening.