As a songwriter I enjoy the intimacy of me singing the songs.

So many of them just fall out of your life and you never see them again.

He wasn't like glamorous. Of all the people watching I'm sure there were a lot of people into him, … obsessed with him, some women out there that were in this fan club. People are watching the news every night; there's this intimate relationship with this stranger.

But when Brian committed them to the picture and he said that they would provide new songs, they said, "Well, we're not going to write any decent songs, we'll give them all the rejects we didn't really want."

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

Women and men who have established no-lie relationships talk about them with reverence, even when they are not permanent and, in fact, even when they are not romantic. Why? In the no-lie relationship there is acceptance of who each partner is, rather than a shallow idealization. There is a genuine commitment to the relationship beyond the immediate. You each act as though you are in a real partnership that will last.