Patti Scialfa

You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?

I like having the space of my own project.

All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.

We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

I was always friends with a lot of guys, maybe because their girlfriends were girly-girls, and they felt safe with me.

Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.

When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.

With any long-term relationship, you have good days and bad days.

I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way.

I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.

I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.