I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.