I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

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

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

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