When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

I love mixing up my genres.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.