Northern Lad

“My heart goes out to where that song [Northern Lad] comes from. It’s very much about thinking you were loved for who you were, and realizing you weren’t, and realizing maybe you don’t love yourself. The line, ‘I guess you go too far/When pianos try to be guitars’ is just about never being enough. I felt that with my instrument sometimes, wanting to be Jimmy Page. You can only be you. A lot of times it’s never enough for people.” [Alternative Press - July 1998]

“I met this guy, he’s no white knight, but I wrote this for him.” She played Northern Lad. After she finished, she said, “I’m really not supposed to talk about him, see we made a deal - I married him.” [radio show - 1998]