This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.

I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the 70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

The thing that really got me about Janis the most, was how liberated she was. She stood in that power even though it was kind of that platform of blues of being completely tormented, that enabled her to just stand there and let it go at a time when woman were not doing that...she just came out in the completely undone, unwrapped way and I think spoke right out of a woman's soul. Directly.