Krista Tippett

I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.