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

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

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

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.