As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.
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My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
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I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
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In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
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I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.
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I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
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It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.
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Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.
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I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.