Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

I notice that when I feel the most disconnected, once I'm done blaming the moon and everything else, I can see that I am so mired in identification with form and ego and story and identity, and that if I want to, I can read some scripture or read some spiritual book or pray or meditate or sit in the sun or hang around the birds and the dogs, and get a real objective sense of what's really going on here. That usually softens things.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.