I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you're establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

I think music is another language.