Natalie Merchant — American Musician born on October 26, 1963,

Natalie Anne Merchant is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993... (wikipedia)

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.