You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie To You.

[as A Kid] I Felt It Was Really Weird That Music Schools Behaved Like A Conveyor Belt To Make Performers For Those Symphony Orchestras. If You Were Really Good And Practiced Your Violin For A Few Hours A Day For Ten Years You Might Be Invited To This Vip Elite Club. For Me Music Was Not About That. It Is About Freedom And Expression And Individuality And Impulsiveness And Spontaneity. It Wasn't So Apollonian; It Was More Dionysian.

I'm Back At My Cliff Still Throwing Things Off I Listen To The Sounds They Make On Their Way Down I Follow Him With My Eyes 'till They Crash Imagine What My Body Would Sound Like Slamming Against Those Rocks.

I'm Not Very Good At Doing Two Things At The Same Time. I've Never Been Good At The Walk And Bubblegum Thing. I've Been Doing This 16 Hours A Day. I Haven't Had A Day Off. But It's Very Exciting, Too, Just To Meet All These People Doing Really Fertile Stuff. It's Sort Of Where I Come From Anyway, Hanging Out With People Who Believe In Something Incredible.

I Am Grateful... Grapefruit.

I've Never Done An Album Like This. With Biophilia, I Was Being Like Kofi Annan - I Had To Be The Pacifist To Try To Unite The Impossible. Maybe That Was A Strange, Personal Job Between Me And Myself, To Show How Overreaching I Was Being As A Woman. The Only Way I Could Express That Was By Comparing It To The Universe.