My childhood was extreme.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

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.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.