I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.