I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.