Don't uncork what you can't contain

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

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 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 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.

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.

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.