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.

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

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

I don't believe in karma.

Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.