There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.

I've had stalkers.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.