Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.

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

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up. There was so much exploration of gender at that time. Women were showing up with the range of ways of being female in the world and men were showing up with the range of being male in the world.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

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

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