I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

I'm pretty self-conscious, so I tend to work in a way where I say what I need to say and get out rather than revisit things. It's kind of a collage style. I realized that it had more emotional weight that way. I'll always be in the developmental stages as far as being a songwriter.

The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.

Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.

When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian.

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men are coming too. Religious rhetoric will bite its own ass trying to nail only women in a two-person process.