But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.