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.

Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

The key to change... is to let go of fear.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Every person's every action has an effect.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

I love mixing up my genres.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.