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.

A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

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.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

[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.

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 get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.