Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

I've watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It's when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.

What was nice about the nineties is that it was an example of music that responded to a desire of the times. It spoke to the social conditions of the times. Women were making more money. Women were saying, "My voice counts. If we're going out on a Friday night, I don't want to see a Rambo movie. I want to go see a singer/songwriter who sings about my life".