It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.