I've Been Devoted To Alison Krauss For

You Have So Much Power To Bring Awareness, Prevention And Change.

I Was Powerless Over My Childhood But The Coping Strategies That I Developed, To Survive, All Of Which Were Creative And Brilliant And Got Me Through, As An Adult Those Became My Defects Of Character. Those Became My Shortcomings, Control And All That Kind Of Stuff... And That's My Responsibility. I Was A Blameless Child In What Happened In The Home; I Take Responsibility For My Behaviors As An Adult.

She Wasn't That Tough On Me, But I Think She Was Often A Little Frightened - Being A Single Parent. So It Begets This Quality Of Desired Absoluteness That Doesn't Really Exist. My Sister Could Crack Her Up. She'd Be Getting Into Trouble And Put The Steve Martin Arrow Through Her Head And Mom Would Start To Laugh. I Didn't Have The Same Sort Of Wiliness.

I Think That Being Perceptive And Having Interests Is Nothing But An Asset.

For Native Americans, The Most Shameful And Powerful Corrective Gesture Is To Literally And Physically Turn One's Back Upon A Person Who Has Transgressed, And Then After They've Been Banished For A While, They Come Back Into The Circle And The Members Of The Tribe Say Every Good Thing That Person Has Ever Done, Because They Have To Be Welcomed Back.