 Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him. |
| I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do. |
| I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing. |
| I love mixing up my genres. |
| If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end. |
| And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think. |
| When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming. |
| My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time. |
| It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me. |
| Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life. |
| For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything. |
| The key to change... is to let go of fear. |
| I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars. |
| Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it. |
| No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home. |
| I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate. |
| And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it. |
| The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore. |
| Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening. |
| Every person's every action has an effect. |
