In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that...and I fall flat on my ass. I've never written a lasting song with that mindset. It doesn't work.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.