I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

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

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...

I like to think that I'm not old yet.