Someone Told Me Once That Lucinda Williams

Portland Is A Place Where You Can Find A Community As A Feminist, A Vegan Or A Fat Activist. Artists, Musicians, Knitters, And Filmmakers Can All Meet Like-minded Souls. It's Proved The Perfect Place For Me And All My Punk Friends.

Do I Ever Think Gossip Will Be Really Massive In America? No, I Don't Think It'll Happen - And That's Fine. It's Kind Of Nice Because I Get To Experience Everything At Once. I Get To Come Home And It Not Be Weird, Like In Paris Or Something. It Is Nice To Be Completely Anonymous.

I Always Was Really Confident About Myself, About My Voice, Myself As A Person, My Body, All Of Those Things, But As A Songwriter - I Just Didn't Identify As A Songwriter At All.

I Think From A Major-label Perspective, If You Were On The Flip Side Of Things And That's The World You Were Used To Working In, Your Interpretation Could Be, "oh, They're Having Trouble Writing Songs," When Really It's Like, "no, I'm Not Ready To Write Songs, I Don't Want To Write A Song Right Now, If I Did Write A Song, It Would Be Forced."

I'm On A Diet. It's Very Strict: All Hot Dogs. Just Sausages, Constantly. It's Working Out - I've Gained Fifteen Pounds!