I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.