How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

I didn't think I had much of a following in the South. I thought I was anonymous down there so I kept to the South. But I found in certain pockets that I was quite recognizable and I just hit a wig store.

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.

Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.