When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.

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?

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where the metaphors live in this geography.

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.