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I have a sordid past.
I think music is another language.
Slavery doesn't have any positives.
You always have to wrestle with chaos.
The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
The only word for love is everybody's name.
If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.
When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.
Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.
And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.
The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.
There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.
I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.
The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.
How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].
If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.
But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.
I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.
And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends
There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.
I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.
I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.
In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.