Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

It's not dark yet But it's getting there

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.