I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up. But a part of it is I also never felt much of a connection to the world in which I lived while I was growing up, and so, oddly enough, I think I felt a lot more connected to the worlds that I read about in science fiction.

I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.