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.

When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't have a concept. I didn't think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

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

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.