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 was always inventing characters and making up stories.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

I still consider myself a feminist.

Don't uncork what you can't contain

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.