Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of yo….

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one th….

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it d….

When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to….

Freedom has never been free..

Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another..

Could you be loved and be loved?.

You`ve got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There`s no countervailing power..

When we are honoured for a thing, we become attached to that thing..

So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly….

Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be wil….

I am one of the crucified dead..

Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When you're creating a song, there sh….

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back..

I love to work. I love doing standup..

This is how it is now. This is my life..

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory..

Take charge of your thoughts!.

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last..

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love..

The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now..