I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.

Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.

How far can we go? How much can we absorb and still have some peace of mind?

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.