I Hate To Do What I'm Told,

I'm Naturally A Mousy Blonde, So I Dye My Hair, And My Eyebrows Would Disappear If I Didn't Get Through At Least A Pencil A Month.

Someone Told Me Once That Lucinda Williams Takes Six Years Between Albums, And That's What Stuck To Me; It's Like, You Really Are A Factory. You Don't Do Things To Make Them, On Your Own Time.

I Grew Up With The Motto Of "they Can't Kill You And Eat You," And I Still Think That's Right. You Sure As Hell Can't! When It Comes To Speaking About My Body Makes Other People Uncomfortable But It Doesn't Make Me Uncomfortable. It Makes Them Think More About Themselves Than It Makes Them Judge Me. I've Always Had This Body And Had To Live With It. I've Never Been A Little Thing. I've Been Smaller But I've Never Been Small, Even As A Baby. I've Never Had That Window Into That Kind Of World Where People Only Talk To You Because You're Conventionally Sexy.

I'm A Great Believer In Karma And The Vengeance That It Serves Up To Those Who Are Deliberately Mean Is Generally Enough For Me.

Thanks To Capitalism, The Importance Placed On Beauty Has Never Been So Manipulated. We Are The Guinea Pigs Force-fed Ads That Tell Us How Pathetic We Are: That We Will Never Be Loved, Happy Or Valuable Unless We Have The Body, The Face, The Hair, Even The Personality That Will Apparently Be Ours, If Only We Buy Their Products.