“I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.”

“Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.”

“I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.”

“There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.”

“People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.”

“After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.”

“You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.”