I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

They taught me different was wrong.

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

People who are just starting out are always sort of coming to me for advice as the example of "independent girl," and lots of people ask, well, how did you get the booking agent or the national distribution or the tours? And I look at them like, "Good lord! Relax!" I mean, how I did it was to not care about it and to not even think about it for years and years. All I thought about was getting the next little gig in the little bar, and I get this sense that people want me to give them the secret formula or the magic trick to make it all happen.