I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .

I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.