P.S.:
You recently worked with Darryl McDaniels of Run DMC. Can you tell
me more about that project?
SARAH:
Yeah, it was Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. He was
doing it for his new record. I think unfortunately he got dropped
from Arista so I'm not sure what's happening with it. I was I
think... Gosh, no, I had had my child already. It was sort of a
fun thing to do. I was in the studio working on my own record
which had been stalled. Then he called and said, 'We'd love for
you to sing the chorus on Cat's in the Cradle'. I thought,
'Well that would be a fun thing to do.' You would never imagine
working with a great rap artist (laughs). Sure, why not? Mostly I
was a bit hesitant but then I talked to him on the phone and he
was the sweetest guy, such a pet.
P.S.:
Well I know he adores you. He said he believes you are an angel.
SARAH:
Aahhhh... Well I tell you, he won me over. He basically flattered
the hell out of me. (laughs) He was so sweet.
P.S.:
I read an interview you did years ago with Stevie Nicks. It was in
Interview Magazine.
SARAH.:
Oh yeah!
P.S.:
In the interview,
she said that when she first heard your music you reminded her of
the Janis Joplin / San Francisco era of the 70's and that you have
a very wise, old soul. What was it like to hear feedback like that
coming from Stevie Nicks?
SARAH:
Pretty damn flattering.
P.S.:
Because that was when things were just first taking off for you.
SARAH:
I was a baby. I think that was '91 or something like that. That
was incredibly flattering. I'm a huge Fleetwood Mac fan. She's
sort of this huge icon and to have someone like that telling me
that they love my music is incredible validation. She's a cool
lady. We've talked a number of times since then. It was funny
because we did the interview but then we talked for about an hour
and a half afterwards. She told me all of this stuff that we
didn't talk about in the interview. (laughs) That was a really
good conversation.
P.S.:
How are you feeling about touring again?
SARAH:
I can't wait because I've been doing so much promotion. Three
months of promotion in North America; October, November and
December. Thankfully I was playing but it was solo. I did a lot of
radio shows and promotion in that way. I want to play with my
band. I want to do a whole show. It's sort of like teasers when
you go up there and do three or four songs. I can't wait to play
with my band but unfortunately that's not going to happen until
the end of April. I'm going to go to Australia and New Zealand
first and then come back and rehearse some more. Then go to North
America in July, August and September.
P.S.:
You've said that being famous was never your intent. Was it ever
tempting to stay retreated and not do the months of promotion that
it takes?
SARAH:
Oh yeah (laughs). That's one of the biggest battles I have with
myself. I would love to put my record out and do nothing. I also
feel like I spent two and a half years toiling to make this record
happen. I can't put it out and not work it. Call that ego or
whatever but I don't want to put out a record and have it not sell
because I was too lazy to go out and work it. I've always had a
pretty good work ethic. I've spent years with every record out on
the road promoting and touring. To do any different with this one
wouldn't make much sense. It's in my bones. That's how I do
things. It's become more of a challenge because I have a child and
my priorities have shifted. But, I get to bring her with me and
she doesn't seem to be too adversely effected by it. We travel in
style. We go business class and stay at very nice hotels. I have
the luxury of having a nanny with me on the road for when I'm not
there. She's a Montessori school teacher which is pretty sweet. So
she's very well taken care of. My husband also is with us quite
often and he's very hands on. She has a great infrastructure and
support group and lots and lots and lots of love. So I think she's
just fine and I get to feel validated that I can do both. I tell
you, some days it's... it's incredibly difficult some days to keep
it all together but I must feel like it's worth it or I wouldn't
keep doing it.
P.S.:
Can you tell me a little bit about the song Answer?
SARAH:
That was an interesting one. Actually the chorus, if you can call
it a chorus, 'Cast me gently into morning...' That was something I
wrote about ten years ago. It was part of another song that never
worked because the chorus from the other song was not very strong
but I always loved that 'Cast me gently into morning' part. Once I
was playing this new little verse thing that I had for my
producer. Then for some reason I started playing that after the
fact and he said, 'Oh! That sounds great together.' I was like,
'Oh no, no, no, no. They're two very different things.' They mean
the exact core opposite. (laughs) It can't work and he's like,
'No, just listen.' Then he forced me to put it together and record
it because I can never hear anything until I hear it back,
recorded. So we played it and it was so awkward for me to go from
one to the other. It didn't seem to make any sense in my brain but
then I heard it and I heard what he was hearing. It was opposite
but somehow it worked together. I mean, I do everything pretty
instinctively. I don't tend to question things that much. If it
feels right, I go for it and then I let it go. That's been a song
that people really want to get into with me and talk about what it
meant. I'm the worst at that. I don't have a clue or I don't
remember. People want to get into, 'Why did you write this lyric?'
I'll be like, 'That was three years ago. I don't remember now.'
(laughs)
P.S.:
I understand that as a writer. I also write poetry and I'll go
back and read poems that I don't even remember writing. It's so
stream of conscious sometimes.
SARAH:
Yeah, oh yeah. Well you're different. You've changed and you've
grown and you've moved forward and you're not in that place
anymore. Thank goodness we're not in that place anymore. Who wants
to live in that self wallowing place all of the time? Not to say
that your poetry is self wallowing. I'm speaking from personal
experience.
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