You have to defend your honor. And your family.

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.

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

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

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.

Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.