There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.

When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.