I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

A dreamer born is a hero bred.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.