I never would have asked, “Do you know you have a twang, and you’re from Washington?” There are definitely parts along the way where you address things that most interviewers might feel too respectful to bring up, like, as you said, how the process worked, and issues involving the bio-dad…īut even getting down to something as inconsequential as your trace of a Southern accent. And I wanted to touch on that because if it makes anyone feel as, maybe knowing that it’s being written about will be the sort of indication or the hope that we all need. So I was able to kind of explain our process - IVF and how we integrated our kids’ dad into the picture - and also how it made me feel to sign my daughter’s birth certificate on the line that was labeled “father,” and knowing that the systems haven’t caught up yet with the fact that we exist. But in terms of like literature and media, I want to see more of that represented. And there are people that came before us, thank God, and did such an amazing job. But I feel a responsibility to kind of be a part of laying down tracks with the rest of my community as an early pioneer in gay domesticity. Is there anything that you feel like you got to address more in this book that you hadn’t touched on so much publicly before?ĬARLILE: I think I thought maybe my parenting journey would need to be private, or something like that. VARIETY: You’ve been an open book in interviews. Meanwhile, Carlile got on the phone with Variety this week to talk about a few of the myriad topics she addresses in her autobiography - and a few she doesn’t, like what to expect out of a new album in the fall, her first since the Grammy-winning “By the Way, I Forgive You” came out more than three years ago.

If you want to hear more of that voice in the virtual flesh, Carlile will be releasing an audiobook version of the memoir come Tuesday, which will include, as a bonus, 31 solo acoustic versions of songs mentioned in the book, both covers and originals.

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