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

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.

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

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.