The idea for the song floated around in her head for almost a decade. I had no idea how lucky I was, until people started telling me about it. There is a lot of undoing. But it did, respectably. It made its money back.
Some musicians see themselves as writers first, some as performers.
Ian sees herself as a writer first. When each of us came out, neither of us had a language to answer the questions we would be asked. There was no vocabulary. Ian, who has become a public figure in a new way, writes a regular column for Advocate magazine and is helping to find that vocabulary as she discusses issues of interest and concern within the lesbian and gay community. A huge weight you may not even have been aware of is lifted.