I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.

I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.