If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

I'm just holding up mirrors at interesting places, I'm trying to capture life at strange angles.

But for every price, and every penence that I could think ofIt's better too have fallen in love, then never to have fallen at all

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.