I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a notion in my mind and just follow it.

I still consider myself a feminist.