Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.