You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee

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.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.