I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating and really fun.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

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

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

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

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.