Like her fans, Etheridge has grown up. A very quiet place, where in solitary I could be still and think about myself and the situations I wanted to write about. It's a very personal album, none of the songs were easy but nor were they especially hard. I was excited while I was writing it. I was in a great space to pull things out and examine them and write about them.
Writing is about finding the least number of words to get the biggest feeling across.
That's my new thing. To be economical. To stop and say 'two verses and a chorus is enough' if they say what I want to say. Honesty though is something she's already carried with her. Ever since I was a child, very young pre-teen, I was able to put my feelings into a song where I was not able to communicate it to another person, either my parents or my friends.