More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

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.

I love mixing up my genres.

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.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds.