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For Me, Art Is A More Trustworthy Expression Of God Than Religion.

Once Your Kids Get Older And Get Out Of The House, It's Not Like It Stops. They're On The Phone With Me Every Day; I'm Intimately Involved In Their Problems.

Like Thornton Wilder Said, Time Is Not A River, But Rather A Landscape That You Step In And Out Of. I've Always Found That True Of Creative Work, And I've Heard So Many Songwriters And Writers In General Say The Same Thing... When You're Going Into The Realms Of Your Self And Trying To Tap Into The Mystery Of This Creative Source, Linear Time Kind Of Falls Away.

I Love Mixing Up My Genres.

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.