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The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

Writing is not work. In fact, there's nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.

I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.