Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

I am a late starter. I like to go on into the night when it's quiet and everything has shut down. I find that's where music and minds open in the dark.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.