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Q	Hi, Sophie. I am a 21 year old man and have been a huge fan of yours since I was only 11 years old. The first song I ever heard by you was As I Lay Me Down, and upon hearing it on the radio I immediately bought both Tounges and Tails and Whaler. Those two CD's moved me like no other music ever has. The beautifually written lyircs, the incredibly catchy music and your one of a kind vocals are absolutely mesmerizing. To me, you are the most talented musician of the modern era. Then in 1999, I remember eagerly awaiting your newest CD, Timbre. I was expecting another good album like your spanvious two, but it ended up surpassing even my high expectations. To me, it seems more mature that your spanvious two did. A little bit deeper. It was a bit dissapointing that it didn't have a mega hit like Damn I Wish I was Your Lover or As I Lay Me Down, though in my opinion this is your best album. It's a shame it wasn't as well recieved by the general public. My favorite song is definetely Bare The Weight Of Me, in my opinion it's the best song ever written. What was your inspiration for it? Because I'm interested in a career in music. I have a good singing voice (or so I've been told) and can play several instruments, but I'm not very good at writing lyrics. So far, I have only 3 songs. My first and favorite one is written about you, since you are the one that inspired me to choose this career path, and it's called Sophie. How do you write your songs, what inspires you? I've looked for inspriation everywhere but I figure asking you directly would be the biggest help. Any help you could offer would be great. I have another question, this is about your tour. Will you consider making a stop in Omaha, NE? You have a lot of fans here and we have a great new convention center and an awesome zoo I'm sure you'd love. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. Your loyal fan, Vincent Valentine Omaha, NE
A	Dear Vincent, you are so sincere and smart that I have to try and answer a question I find it impossible to answer. Bare The Weight of me is a favorite song of mine to perform, I feel free and yet focused singing it, the lyrics are on the edge of vulnerably hopeful and despairingly resigned. It’s static and changing at the same time, holding on and letting go at once. I make up a different story to improvise over the end each night I sing it live, which is very fulfilling on stage, to be spontaneous lyrically and musically especially when the band is really playing off the moments. So how do the lyrics come… I search for them through the music, they are ghosts that come to life when the chords, melody, and rhythm set the stage. It’s great that you can play all those instruments, so you can really set a specific mood, like scenery, time and space in which your characters can come alive. So in this sense think of your lyrics as the main characters, your Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Becall, they need to make an entrance, play out the drama and make an exit. You need to be extremely loving and patient toward your lyrics because it’s not their fault they are not perfect until that happy accident which pulls them all together. Lyrics, when they are really good to the audience, are strange at first to the writer, a familiar stranger. They come to you, you don’t invent them . Keep walking the streets of your mind, eventually you will meet them and follow them home.
Q	I am your big big fan, also I am a big Sarah Brightman´s fan, when I listen her new CD I am very surprise to see your name in a song, Free is amazing, first I hear the song without saw who write it, and all the song remember me Sophie jeje and when I saw the credits I said wow, Sophie, you are very talented and really I admire your work, that song Right Beside You is amazing, my questions are do you will work again with Sarah Brightman?? and how can I get and autograph from you?? is one of my dreams! Thanks a lot Sophie you are an amazing singer, your music is wow great I wish you the best Ever. Sincerely Alex Garnica From Mexico City
A	--Dear Alex, the autograph is easy! Sarah Brightman is La Divina of our times, I just saw her in San Diego and she blew me away. She is also a magnanimous person, she makes everyone around her feel elated. I want to work with her again of course, as much as possible, yet she is doing her own thing and so am I…but hopefully our creative paths will come together again.
Q	Hello, Sophie. I am a long time fan, and I apspanciate your willingness to read and answer questions from your fans. My favorite album of yours is Whaler- particularly the song "Mr. Tugboat, Hello". The whole album is infused with a funky sort of freedom that I really enjoy. Timbre was very good as well, but I am hoping to hear some more of that exuberant musical sound on Wilderness. My question is this- Have you considered writing a biography? I am fascinated by your life. Sincerely, Kelly Seattle, WA
A	Dear Kelly, I agree that there are several dramatic and very original stories that have played out in my life so far, and of course they are ongoing. I would really have to sit down with someone to bring out the facts clearly and "linearly" since the book I’m writing is rather unconventionally structured and a little too internal to be biography-like. Like that Edie Brickell song, "put me in the shallow water before I get too deep" (or something like that). Anyhow, I’m going to promote the heck out of Wilderness and then take a rake and clippers to my book, and somewhere in between maybe someone will help me drag the events of my life over the coals.
Q	Hey Sophie B. Hawkins, I was browsing your website last week to see what you are up to, and was happily surprised to see that you have a question and answer section. I have a couple of questions, but first I have to tell you how wonderful and amazing you and your music are. When I was a little girl, every night before bed my mother would make my sisters and I say a little prayer.I don't say it too often anymore, but the first time I heard As I Lay Me Down, played on the radio a number of years ago it was like you singing that prayer to me. I have been your fan ever since. When I hear it played on the radio now, I always stop what I am doing, turn it up and sing along. There is a smile that comes across my face and a sense of peace that comes over me. It is as if the words are written on my heart. A few years ago, in place called Elk Grove, I had the honor to see you there and sing it right before my eyes. It was just a few days after September 11th, and you had to drive all the way up there to do the concert. I went up after your performance to have you sign an autograph, which you gladly did. And there I was talking to you for a moment about the Statue of Liberty and the woman who wrote the poem about her. Emma Lazerus was her name. After the concert I went home and looked up Emma Lazerus on the Internet and got some information about her. I was going to try to send it to you as a small way of saying thanks for what you did that day. Only problem was that I had no idea of where to send it, and I had other life changing events going on, and it got put aside. That leads to my first question. Is there any place I can send this to? My second question is, do you ever go to the awesome drumming and dancing events that are held a few time a week right on the beach at Venice? About eight years ago I took some German guests down to LA to visit my mom. They wanted to go to Venice Beach for a look, and we stumbled across this huge mass of people in the sand dancing to the pulse of the drums. I had never seen anything like it and was totally mesmerized. I still have never seen anything like it. I have brought a few of my friends down to share the experience. I can't get enough of it. The best part is as the sun sinks down below the ocean, everyone turns and faces the sun as it goes down, as if to pay homage to it. When I am there, I become connected to all the other six billion people I walk the planet with, and all the people that came before us. Someday in the not too distant future, I will be at another one of your concerts. I will be the woman out in the audience with a big smile on her face singing along to all your songs. Namaste. Kathy P.
A	Dear Kathy, first of all, I remember clearly that talk we had after the show. Thank you for saving the information on Emma Lazerus, I would love if you could send it to Janice at this website so we could post it, and share it with everyone, and also, Janice will send it to me personally. Secondly, I do indeed relish the drumming circle on Venice beach, I love to listen to it especially from my studio on summer evenings, it’s one of the reasons I fell for Venice , as it reminds me of the drummers in Central Park which drove me to learn African Drumming for my first hands on musical experience at fourteen years old. Thank you for the georgeous words about the prayer and "As I…", it made me cry a little.
Q	Hi Sophie, Some years ago I had the luck to tape a concert on the public service TV here in Sweden, it was the aniversary concert for Bob Dylan. I taped the concert because I really love the poems and the songs of Bob Dylan and this was also an opportunity to get other great artist's interspantation of Bob Dylan's songs. And there was you! It was the very first time I've heard you, shame to say, but your interspantation of Dylan's "I want you" was the most sensual performance I've seen. It gave me the chill down my spine, and after this experience I've tried to buy all the records I've found with you, and I'm looking forward to listen to your next album! Unfortunately my tape, that I mentioned earlier, is damaged, so I bought another with this concert recorded, but that one didn't have your performance on it, so, I'm wondering if there is any DVD with this performance of yours? And also, if there are any DVD with your live concerts? Yours sincerely Jonny Krejlgaard
A	Dear Jonny! I loved doing that show so much, and I wasn’t included in the concert CD or video for whatever reason. But that’s o.k., because I do "I Want You" as an encore in just about every performance and when I come to Sweden (I have such a good time in Sweden, I’ve taken amazing walks all around Stockholm and I want to live there one day) I will perform "I Want You" and hope you will be in the audience…because I will ask from the stage.
Q	Hi Sophie, Really excited to hear that the new album will be out in my birth month. Will be the big 40 this year, so it will make a great spansent for me !! Any plans to tour the UK at all in support of Wilderness ?? Never lose the faith - you touch so many people !! Huw Devon, England
A	Dear Huw, you are a Taurus? That always makes me think Of Stevie Wonder’s "super woman" (try to boss the bull around) I love that album. Anyhow I do have plans for the U.K. A very talented woman in Ireland is working on getting me distribution there, and so it’s just a matter of time before I’m running around Hampstead Heath, my old neighborhood, between shows.
Q	I just wanted to say how much I love you and your music. It has really meant a lot to me and I like many of your fans have never seen you live. Any chance of you coming to Dallas, Texas. There are a lot of us lesbians down here who would love to see you. Amy E Dallas,Tx
A	Dear Amy, I love Dallas and I love Lesbians…I’m touring so much this year I’m sure I’ll be there in 04. Be wild!
Q	I have been a fan since I listened to Tongues and Tails, truly listening, and not just to "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover", it was "California" that struck the cord. Anyways have been a long time fan, wrote to Sony on behalf of you to allow you to release Timbre artistically visioned, but have never had a chance to see you live. The one chance to see you I missed out due to personal reasons. Anyways, the question is...Will you please play in Michigan, say The Ark in Ann Arbor. That venue would you justice, if this would be possible. Another venue would be Magic Bag in Ferndale, MI. A long time fan in Michigan. Rose
A	Dear Rose, I just called my manager about Ann Arbor, Michigan has always been good to me, so hopefully we can get a show there soon. I’m happy to hear you were struck by "California", the lyrics are great to savor live, and they get truer somehow as time goes on. The influence of the bridge section (where I say the lord’s prayer) is John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes Of Wrath", and aspects of the chorus were influenced by Bugs Bunny going through the golden gates and finding 50 foot carrots. I had never been to California when I wrote the song.
Q	Hi Sophie, I am your no 1 fan in the UK, (bet you hear that all the time) and have followed your work since I was 14 in 1994. Right Beside You was the song that intrigued me with your voice and style. Anyway, I am wondering if you will ever get a chance to come and do a UK tour (Glasgow would be ideal as this is my home town!) I think it would be a great success and over the past couple of years there have been a few modestly sized venues opened that would be perfect for you! Take care and lots of love, Rob Telford
A	Hi Rob, I can’t wait to get distribution so I can come to Glasgow. Scottland, even though it is literally in my blood lines, moves me spiritually. I just heard a recording of traditional Scottish music by Ensemble Gallilae (sp?), and I’m very anxious to get the CD. See you in the mist!