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" I did not know that the wounds of war are often invisible. "

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" I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace. "

" 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. "

" In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life. "

" I felt my whole life like I didn't have a family, and I needed one. So I had to build one, and you build one with faith, hope, and the healing power of love - or you end up the 'Unabomber.' That's the choice. "

" I think music is the highest form of healing. "

" I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool. "

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" There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike. "

" A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics. "

" 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. "

" If I start tracing, I bet I will find a writer in my family tree. "

" Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing. "

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" The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs. "

" Fundamentally, our job as songwriters is to sit down and listen. "

" I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the ability to articulate what it was I wanted to say. "

" I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name because it's not my name. I don't know my name. "

" What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship. "

" What I've found at 48 years old is that there's nothing about me that's unique. "

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" I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art. "

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" Art, when done well, creates empathy. "

" A lot of times, a bunch of songs have to be written to get to the next really good one. "

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" It can take me many months to write one of my own songs. "