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If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

My best songs come from a place outside myself.

Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.

In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.