I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about?

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

I resent like hell that I was maybe eighteen before I ever heard the 'L' word. It would have made all the difference for me had I grown up knowing that the reason I didn't fit in was because they hadn't told me there were more categories to fit into.