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.

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

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.

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.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.