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

I have a sordid past.

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

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.

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?

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