Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.