The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.

Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

We have cultural depth. We get all kinds of stuff to chew on, to live on.

The ones that catch your eye are the ones that are basically people who live on the road and follow us around. They're a small percentage of the audience, but they're quite visible. The ones who aren't visible are the stockbrokers, lawyers, doctors, housewives.