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" 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. "

" 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 would make a terrible soldier, because I don't follow orders. "

" I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal limitations and also more powerful to slightly sing sometimes. It depends on the emotion, but I'm never going to try to compete with great singers. "

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

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

" 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 love SongwritingWith:Soldiers. "

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

" Melody's like tweezers that go into the infection and pull out the wounded part. You can almost not stay silent in the face of a melody that matches your emotion. You feel seen. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth. "

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

" Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I've worked with a lot of people who've gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it's a big damn deal. "

" 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. "

" As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness. "

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

" I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the next big song in the chute.' You gotta write 'em to get to it. You never know what's going to be a little song or a big song. "

" I got issues. Boy, have I got issues. "

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

" 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. "

" When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed. "

" I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business - and that's a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn't blindside me. "

" 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. "