I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

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

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

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 have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

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

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.