I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.
I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman.
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.
If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.
Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.
I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.
No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
