<<I think she is speaking from some deep hurt that apparently she cannot transcend. Don't mean to psychoanalyze her - just my 2 cents. >>
I don't think you're psychoanalyzing at all, Kakki...it's difficult, probably impossible, to care about an artist's work and not care about the artist as well, particularly when she has "sondtracked" so many life experiences for a lot of us. I feel like we all like to revel in her victories and are sympathetic in her sorrows. And I think (like Lama so poignantly described) that her relationship with her daughter and her mother has been such a powerful driver for her all along, I think a lot of what factors into her bitterness is the conflicted relationship with Kilauren. Bob NP: Tom Waits, "More Than Rain"
