I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and seeing this incredible range of landscapes throughout the United States. That's what happened with The Honesty Room. It was a huge night and day switch.

I think music is another language.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.

The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be the same as another concert.