My act has always reflected what's going on in my life..

I'd love to work with Disney again..

I've always been reasonably fatalistic..

Life was a pre-death experience..

Love creates, it doesn't destroy..

[Chamber of Reflection off of Salad Days]I think it's probably that one. There's no guitar on that song, I've never recorded a song with absolutely n….

It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical….

I had a band called the Sound Of Love and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to mak….

I guess I have some kind of a visceral connection with drums. I'm looking to create music that people can react to viscerally, and people will respon….

That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in t….

Until you respond to God by faith, you do not receive from Him, because God is a faith-God..

The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons….

Everything I say is true..

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought..

I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like Josh Turner and then turn around and be a ….

Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of yo….

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one th….

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it d….

When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to….

Freedom has never been free..

Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another..