I remember doing "As Cool As I Am" and Steve Miller, the producer, saying "I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you." When I wrote it, I thought, "This isn't going to sound very folky. I don't think it's going to go with mandolins and banjos." Then he played the loop for me and it sounded right.

"Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

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