I can write songs without a guitar.
I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.
I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.
I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.
Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.
I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow.
Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.
Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before.
There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.
The Graces was a great experience; it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.
My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me
Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.
The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.
If a person ever came to me as a fan and tried to go out on a date, I wouldn't. I've had enough kind of crazy experiences in that department.
I don't think science is totally true, because I've seen miracles happen through prayer.
I first met Hanson over in Japan and they gave me some great advice about the fans and they seem real down to earth. They're great.
I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.
I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.
I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.
I quickly learned to take anger and use it to motivate me. My sister ran away from home, and she was my world. And that was that. The guitar became my world.
I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing.
I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.
I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a great hang, and hopefully, be a messenger.
I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.
I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.
