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“What I really like is this salted calamari - with jalapenos on top.”
“I don't play everything I write. I mean, everything I write is not that good. I bring out into the world the ones I think that are really worthy of an audience's attention.”
“Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that 3 1/2 or four minutes the song lasts. It takes away that isolated loneliness that modern life is so full of.”
“I did not know that if a member of a family serves, the whole family serves. I did not know that the spouses of our service members carry such a heavy load.”
“We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.”
“There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art of songwriting more than the commercial enterprise of it.”
“If somebody in a family is in service, the whole family is in service. I didn't know that. I didn't know our veterans were being deployed seven, eight, nine, 10 times. It's inhumane.”
“I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.”
“When you see validation for a life's work and dedication, it's a beautiful day.”
“My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.”
“What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.”
“I learn something every time I go to work with a veteran. Every single time.”
“I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible.”
“I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.”
“When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.”
“I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them.”
“When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.”
“Ultimately, what I want is for my songs to outlive me: I want my songs to keep being played even after I'm gone.”
“Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen.”
“I guess I find it easier to talk when I have a guitar in front of me.”