If you don't like me, don't turn your television on at the holidays, because you won't be able to escape.

I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.

If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.

Music is so much more than what you wear and your hair.

I have musical ADD or something, and I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I love different sounds, different influences.

I love to sing 'Stay' every night... because people sing along. And they do sing along - loudly!

People tattoo for different reasons. I use a tattoo as a marker of time, to be reminded of a time in my life. It is something special and personal.

I have a sweet tooth the size of Connecticut. It's a problem.

It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.

I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.