“I felt I had to choose between being pretty or smart or athletic, and ...” — Alison Sudol Quote

“I felt I had to choose between being pretty or smart or athletic, and stick to it because if you try to do more than one, you have nowhere to belong. Then music was a boy's world and a lot of times men assumed I didn't know what I was doing because I was young and female.”

“When I am going through something monumental or difficult in my life it is hard to look at it as it is because it is too much.”

“I think you can do a lot with lyrics and melody.”

“It was always assumed that I would go to college.”

“I have never worried about having my finger on the pulse, because I consume music and cinema voraciously, and assumed that meant I would know all of the things my kids were into, even if I didn't like them.”

“Conservatives spent an awful long time ignoring things: the birthers, the bigots, the xenophobes, the alternative-reality media. We had assumed that they were postcards from the fringe.”