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There Is Something To Be Said For People Who Have To Work Hard, Be Creative, Produce What They Have With Little - Or No - Means. Those Of Us From Poor Homes Have The Advantage Of Thinking For Ourselves And Of Knowing That When Times Get Hard, Things Could Always Be Worse.

I Know What I Want! And I Just Go For It.

In Moments When I Question If I Should Be Having Kids, I Think Of All Those Phone Calls From My Sister-in-law, In Which, 3,000 Miles Away, I Hear My Nephews Screaming For Her Attention. I Tell Her I Have To Go Because I Am Packing To Leave For Europe, And Her Tone Flatlines: "that Must Be Nice."

My Life Hasn't Been Conventional And It Hasn't Been Linear. I've Had To Make It Up As I've Gone Along, Which Has Taught Me A Lot. If You Don't Accept The Obvious Options That Are Laid Out For You, It's Up To You To Work Out Where You're Going And To Create Your Own Specific Rules And Goals.

The Thing About Being On The Majors, From The Beginning, Going Into This, I Was Like, "i'm Not Going To Be Treated Like A Factory," Because That's Never The Way It Was Done Before. You're Talking About A Major Label, We're Talking About Serious Business; You're Not An Artist Anymore, You're A Business, You Have To Work In Terms Of Product, You Have To Release A Product, And I Don't Really Think That Way At All.