Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

I like butter and the people who like butter.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world