People think you've either got something to hide - or you're a real bitch. I'm as shy as all get-out, and I tend to keep to myself. Rather than spread-eagle herself on the altar of publicity, she prefers to let her music do most of the talking. In song after song on a string of successful albums. And while she often lets her music shine a light into her personal thoughts and perspectives, she cautions against trying to read too closely between the lines of her songs.
Records are just snapshots here and there of things.
They're just what you felt like doing at the time. A lot of folks, she notes, thought her last album, Stones in the Road, was sad and somber. That anyone could get that impression perplexes her. What I was trying to put out there was a sense of 'Ah. And I really do feel that way.