Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.

If the postman is saying hello to you, then I feel like, wow, thats something special.

I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her.

I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.