Documenting One's Life In The Midst Of

War Is Idiocy. We Live On A Small, Small Planet, And What We Do To Others Is What We Do To Ourselves

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.

"country" Has Become A Marketing Term. I See Myself As A Songwriter.

The Thing That Scares Me Most Is The Shift From Serving The People To Exercising Power And With It, This Attendant Narcissism. Sarah Palin Is A Great Example Of Someone That Just Stirs The Pot For The Sake Of The Attention.

The New Record Started Out Being About Loss, But It's Morphed Into Being About How Relationships Go On Even Though One Person Is Not In A Body Anymore.