There's a certain place you want to get to, and in order to do that, you have to be vulnerable.

I just love music. I love all kinds of music, and I was exposed to it, me and my siblings, from the time we were in utero.

I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more.

In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.

I often compare singing to lovemaking because there's so many similarities.

My ex-husband has been one of my best teachers, and I believe that the areas of our life and the people in our lives that present the most problems to us - they really are our best teachers. They're teaching us lessons that we have to learn anyway, and if we don't accept the lesson from them, there will just be another teacher to step in and take their place.

I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet.