I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

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

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

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.

Every person's every action has an effect.

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

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