Any discussion of Rosanne Cash these days must include some reference to her lively, busy Twitter page, which details everything from the new shoes she bought to the things she worries about at three in the morning. This being Cash, however, her 3 a.m. fears aren't the usual insomniac's. Instead of mortality, she wonders on Twitter "What if there's a sprinkler & it goes off when I'm sleeping & my red hair color gets on the pillow & someone thinks it's blood." Cash saves her dark nights of the soul for her music.
Cash greets questions about her life on Twitter with a laugh. "I have a lot of manic energy and it's a good place to dump it so I don't have to carry it around with me," she says.
One of the more engaging celebrities on Twitter (and certainly one of the few who doesn't self-edit), Cash shrugs off the suggestion that she might have enjoyed the social network when she was a Nashville hitmaker in the 1980s. "I think it would have been awkward. I didn't have as good a sense of myself," she says. And certainly the Internet trolls who come out of the shadows to attack her for her liberal views would have been even more unnerving than they are today.
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