Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

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

I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.

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.

Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.