For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively