You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.