For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.