Natalie Merchant sits down for an in-depth conversation about her 2014 self-titled album and the "intimate portraits" she creates in its songs. "I remember reading that Virginia Woolf thought that Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel that she ever wrote after she had found her voice," she says in the interview. "And she was 43. You can't find your voice until you've lived for a long time."

The video for Natalie Merchant's "Ladybird," off her 2014 self-titled album, was directed by Dan Winters. Rolling Stone, which premiered the video, says: "A lilting lullaby for happier times, the song is vintage Merchant."

The video for Natalie Merchant's "Giving Up Everything," off her 2014 self-titled album, was directed by Dan Winters and premiered on NPR. "Rarely is an artist as honest and revealing as Natalie Merchant in her new video and song," says NPR Music. "Watch the video, let it settle in your bones, and watch again."

Natalie Merchant marks the one-year anniversary of the April 2010 release of her Nonesuch debut album, Leave Your Sleep, with this short film

Natalie Merchant performs "The Man in the Wilderness" from her Nonesuch debut album, Leave Your Sleep.

In this 10-minute documentary, Natalie Merchant takes viewers on a tour through Leave Your Sleep, her Nonesuch debut album and a project years in the making. Merchant tells the stories of the poets whose words she set to music and performs several songs off the album.

With the April 2010 release of Leave Your Sleep, Natalie Merchant's first album since 2003's The House Carpenter's Daughter, we take a look back at the singer-songwriter's career in music and images and preview the new album.