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" I have such a good life. It's something I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it. "

" I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid. "

" I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free. "

" I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting. "

" I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know what that is. But when I'm watching someone else struggle, it's not as confusing for me, 'cause it's not my struggle, so I can help identify that. "

" A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway. "

" Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child - songs and books. "

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

" When you see validation for a life's work and dedication, it's a beautiful day. "

" The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it. "

" I think if people really listened to what our families who serve go through, we could have a realistic discussion of what it means to send young people to war. "

" 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. "

" In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness. "

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

" I've come to terms with the fact that I'll probably be in therapy all of my life. "

" 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. "

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

" War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be. Service freely rendered is a noble thing. "

" They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just very, very difficult for them, and they had to fight for the respect they were earning. And that's all they want is the respect. "

" It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you. "

" I learn something every time I go to work with a veteran. Every single time. "

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" A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them. "

" I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment. "

" I don't know who my dad is. "

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