I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

I had to do this album. I tried thinking, "I'm not going to do it." But then I'm sitting there getting all suicidal and depressed, and I just start writing. It's like this inner drive. If I could choose, I would probably be living in the countryside and be fine with that, but I'm not.

I want to get my music out there. I enjoy playing shows; I just don't enjoy airports. I want to be more creative, but it's hard to get into that zone on tour.

I hung out with some crazy desert people. One guy was just walking around with only shorts on - he'd been walking with bare feet for the last two years. He was totally scarred and eating on all fours like a dog.

I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.