I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.