For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.

It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be a mum and you walk out empty. It's all neat and tidy, there's this potential being in your life and you're empty - all cleaned up and put back together, but completely shattered.

The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.