As far as loneliness I feel Los Angeles and its layout having to drive everywhere – it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
Throughout my whole life as a performer I've never played with a band. I've always played alone so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
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When I was producing on my own I was doing it in order to – in a very patriarchal entertainment industry let alone planet – very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself if nothing else that I could do it as a woman.