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''I Hope,'' your Katrina benefit single, is nominated for Best Country Song and Performance at this year's Grammys. If you guys win, you're not gonna walk up there and be like, ''Suckas!''
[Laughs] Who knows what I'll do. But I am very... um... I'm just kind of... what's the word I'm looking for? I'm neither here nor there about any of that stuff right now. I mean, it's always an honor to be nominated for a Grammy, that's the most prestigious music award. But I just... I don't know, it's almost kinda sad, I don't really get excited about it anymore.
When did you stop getting excited?
Uh... when this whole thing went down. I don't know what that comes from. I'm sure time will heal that, too. I guess it just made a lot of things seem false to me.
How do Emily and Martie feel about this?
Um... I don't know. We're all on the same page... professionally. And some of us like country music more than others [Laughs], but nobody's forcing anyone else not to... um... you know, go the direction that we're going. We're all on the same page.
Sometimes I wonder if there should be an Outspoken Frontmen Anonymous support group or something, where the people who aren't at the microphone saying the thing that gets everyone in trouble can go off and be like, ''Man, she did it again.'' ''I know, man, you should have heard what Bono said tonight.''
[Laughs] Well, I think what makes it different is, we were never political. It was totally circumstances. And when it all came down, Martie — we were in the elevator in London and she was like, ''I could have been the one that said that.'' There was no finger-pointing or blame. And Emily and Martie joke that even when they've said, uh, colorful things on stage, usually someone puts my name on it. [Laughs] It's not a problem. Every day a soldier dies, I am more proud that I spoke out. For the last three years, I am at a loss for words as to... what this country is. Who we are. I really think people have just gone insane. And they think we've gone insane. I think it's sad that you have to truly seek out the truth these days, because CNN and Fox News don't give it to you. So you can't really point a finger at individuals, because it's exhausting to seek out fact from fiction. I used to try and make sense of it but when Bush got reelected, I just didn't know what to do. Keep livin'. It's gotta change back. Politics — I just think it's all corrupt. The entire country is controlled by money. And I think that's what people feel, they don't — their voice isn't heard. They don't have a say. It's corporate America. My friend made up the word corpocracy. I love that word.
Do you think you'll ever publicly take a stand about anything that loudly again?
Oh yeah, sure. Now I say we have nothing to lose. [Laughs] Nothing to lose. And I feel a responsibility to do it now. I didn't realize how quiet I was being. But it's exhausting to keep doing it. You feel like you're fighting an uphill battle. But — it's just not in me to shy away from things that I truly believe in. I have to stand up for them. So no. I'm not afraid of any of that.
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