Story is what's most important.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.