My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

I never even went to Jekyll & Hyde's restaurant. I loved the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, though.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.