I Have Daughters Who Are Writers And

On The Plane, An Eight-year-old With An Excess Of Testosterone Keeps Running Across My Feet. Finally I Grab Him By His T-shirt And Say, Very Sweetly, 'listen, Darling, If You Don't Stop Trampling Me I'm Going To Make You Sit On My Lap While I Tell You My Entire Life Story. Including A Lot Of Details About Drug Rehab And My Divorce.' He Goes Back To His Seat.

I'm A Songwriter. My Voice Just Serves What I'm Writing About. So To Let All That Go, I Mean, Bring The Sensibilities Of It Actually To The Song Choices, But To Just Be The Interpreter Was Incredibly Liberating And Really Fun.

I Dream Of Songs. I Dream They Fall Down Through The Centuries, From My Distant Ancestors, And Come To Me. I Dream Of Lullabies And Sea Shanties And Keening Cries And Rhythms And Stories And Backbeats.

Southern Gentility Is Evocative To Me.

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.