everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

He saw my complications and he mirrored me back simplified, and we laughed how our perfect world would always be denied.