I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

Death is what makes life an event.

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.

What least makes a mother is biology.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.