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

If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.

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

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.

The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social movement might rise like a wave. It's harder to build any kind of wave now. Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That's the only thing that keeps me from believing that there's going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.