It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat.