Steve Poltz and I had both gotten signed at the same time, and he talked me into going to Mexico to write songs. We got lost, ended up in this town where we broke into a little shelter overnight. We woke up the next day and there were no people. We were out of gas. We went down to the beach: pink sand, blue water. We saw four figures in black walking toward us, and I saw they had guns in their belts, and that their shirts said ‘Federale.’ So we asked them the obvious and pertinent question: ‘Do you know where we can get a boat to go whale-watching?’ And they took us whale-watching with them, and I asked what brought them out, and they said they were there on a drug bust. And I was like, ‘Right now? Is it dangerous?’ And he goes, ‘Yeah, that’s why we evacuated the village.’ We ended up staying there for three days with the federales and we wrote several songs—one of them was ‘You Were Meant for Me.’ We were both making a record at the time, and we both wanted to record it, but we couldn’t really decide who should. So after we got done with a gig at 2 or 3 am back in San Diego, we went to a taco shop—and the only people at taco shops at 2 am are ladies of the evening and musicians. I came up with this idea that we would each sing our idea of the song for the prostitutes, and that we would let them pick whoever would get to record it, and we would live by it. And so they picked me to sing it. And that’s how it ended up on my record.

–via Apple Music (November, 2020)

It took me two years — two years — to get ‘You Were Meant for Me’ on the radio. God dang, it was a lot. I came [out] at the height of grunge. But every record has been like that for me. It’s been about slinging it out and using the Internet and having fans do guerilla warfare to create an appetite, where radio stations have to say, ‘Well, I guess, let’s play it,‘” she says. “It was nothing but grit and time to get it going. And I don’t have that now. I believe in the music, but I have to be fairly realistic about what I am willing to do.

–via RollingStone (2015)