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 wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.

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

I write about what I know.

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 like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.