I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

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

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

What was nice about the nineties is that it was an example of music that responded to a desire of the times. It spoke to the social conditions of the times. Women were making more money. Women were saying, "My voice counts. If we're going out on a Friday night, I don't want to see a Rambo movie. I want to go see a singer/songwriter who sings about my life".

[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.