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Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

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I've had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.

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I'm not gay - everybody thinks I am - but I dig 'The L Word.'

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I get a lot of joy out of covering other people's songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.

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I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'

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I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and guitar playing isn't a stretch, but songwriting is. We all have our challenges in what we do, and that's mine.

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I always wanted to be a songwriter, and it took a while.

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I wasn't creative when I was depressed. When my depression got treated, I was creative again.

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I made a promise to myself to write songs I liked. I'm an acoustic singer/songwriter, and I need to be able play every song by myself on guitar. No matter what the production ends up being on the record, I've got to be able to go out and sell it all on my own. It's about connection.

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When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: January 10th, 1958

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