If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When you can do that, you can write about people.

I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!