The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

Just like my career, I've sung the same songs night after night in so many ways. It's always different because every space is different. I lost my mojo once. It was like Austin Powers. I don't know why or how, but I had to get it back. And I did.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.