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I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.