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When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately - I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.

I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

I enjoyed practicing law.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.