"I Could Be" came to me over Easter weekend in 1994. I didn’t realize that in college most people go home for Easter. I was practically the only person in my dorm that weekend. There wasn’t much to do. So, I wrote. "I Could Be" was the newest of the songs to be recorded in that summer session. That writing day was the quickest I’ve ever written a complete song; I wrote it in ten minutes. It has great lyrics. Unfortunately, I recorded it way too slow. I don’t like how this one came out. In later performances of the song, I picked up the pace quite a bit favoring a light strum to a finger-picking style. Conrad pointed out that I was "kind of ripping off" Counting Crows’s "Round Here." I admit the chorus has similar chords, but even my song isn’t that whiny. I love "Round Here," but I don’t get that vibe from "I Could Be." Still, it’s a weird feeling when you write something that comes directly from your heart and then someone tells you you’ve ripped off something else. The song makes a simple statement: it’s hard to be a woman in a man’s world. That week, I was struggling with gender issues. Why is it O.K. for a guy to go to class looking like a complete slob and a gal has to put so much effort into her looks, even before stepping out the door? Seemed unfair to me at the time. Still does.