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

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" 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. "

" I guess I find it easier to talk when I have a guitar in front of me. "

" I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers. "

" 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. "

" I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain. "

" What I really like is this salted calamari - with jalapenos on top. "

" I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my entire life to it. I have to give it a hundred percent. "

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

" Art, when done well, creates empathy. "

" What I was told is that I was born to a mother who was a Catholic, while her boyfriend was not. They couldn't get married unless they put me up for adoption. "

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

" People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me. "

" When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young. "

" When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus. "

" I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other side. Irish and French, that's what I feel. When you're young, it doesn't matter so much, but as you get older, I would suspect part of the ageing process is to wonder about your ancestors - who were they? What were their lives like? "

" 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. "

" If I write for beauty and truth, the songs will find their way to me. Then, it's the songs that speak to the audience, and they can become part of the tribe that is into what I do. "

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

" 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. "

" I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is. "

" Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation. "

" I don't have the experience of being in a war. "

" 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. "

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