My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

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

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

I love mixing up my genres.