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

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

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.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

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

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