There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.