Every Person's Every Action Has An Effect.

As I Started Writing About Loss And Grief, I Was Taking What Felt Unmanageable And Using My Songwriting, My Sense Of Poetry And Discipline, To Try And Make It Manageable.

Southern Gentility Is Evocative To Me.

Like Thornton Wilder Said, Time Is Not A River, But Rather A Landscape That You Step In And Out Of. I've Always Found That True Of Creative Work, And I've Heard So Many Songwriters And Writers In General Say The Same Thing... When You're Going Into The Realms Of Your Self And Trying To Tap Into The Mystery Of This Creative Source, Linear Time Kind Of Falls Away.

I Dream Of Songs. I Dream They Fall Down Through The Centuries, From My Distant Ancestors, And Come To Me. I Dream Of Lullabies And Sea Shanties And Keening Cries And Rhythms And Stories And Backbeats.

I Wanted To Be A Songwriter.i Didn't So Much Want To Be A Performer.i More Grew Into That Just From Being A Songwriter.