I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

Shame is the shadow of love.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.

In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, they're dead and I wasn't able to speak to them, but that was in our family history too.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.