Every once in a while I'll say something...I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip. One of them looked at me and shook her head, like "Don't do that." I think she was doing it to say, "It doesn't work." She didn't say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn't work. There are just so many other words to choose from.

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

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.

I think we're coming to a place where we're saying all war is wrong. We might even learn something about the sensationalism we get caught up in with people like Donald Trump.

There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.