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I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

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

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Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.

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.

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

There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they are, what burdens they carry.

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

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

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

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.

What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship.

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 don't know who my dad is.

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

Soldiers are trained not to be vulnerable, but when they come home, they've got to learn it.

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

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 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.

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

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...

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