I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.