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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35. "

" Songs are here to help us: they build bridges from heart to heart. "

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

" I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them. "

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

" There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice. "

" I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way. "

" 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 don't really write for catharsis; I get that kind of work done in therapy. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 long for real and true connection. It has been the theme of all the songs in my whole life. "

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

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

" 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 don't know who my dad is. "

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

" I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "