"There were things that I had to leave out," she explains, "because I didn't want to hurt people. I didn't want to lose my dignity by doing any score-settling, and I wasn't interested in . . . telling the details of why I got divorced, out of respect for my children. But the things I left out don't fundamentally change the story. They're just out of respect."
Cash has plans afoot to collaborate on a recording with Billy Bragg and Joe Henry. And she has her book to promote - she was on Good Morning America the other day, and she's heading south and then west after her reading at the Free Library.