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• September 11th
  Venice, CA
  USA
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Birthday: November 14th

Place of Birth: Pelham Manor, NY

Pets: Nigel the Labrador Retriever

First Song Learned on the Guitar: "Jamaica Farewell." I also learned a lot of protest songs from my father even earlier: "Union Maid," "This Land Is Your Land," etc.

First Song Written: "Weeping Willow." I wrote it with my sister when I was 5 (a rare co-write!) in the backseat of the car during a family road trip.

First Break: "Discovered" after submitting a homemade tape to the Boulder Music Weekend local music competition at 19—and won the event.

First Award Won: See above

Favorite Food: mussels, shellfish, seafood, dark chocolate

Favorite Drink: red wine

Favorite Guilty Pleasure: Going to the movies in the middle of the day

Favorite Thing to Do: laugh

Favorite Place: Paris, New York, the road, home

Favorite Memory: that's a secret

Favorite Book: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston; The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Favorite Films: The Piano, Bull Durham, American Beauty, Magnolia

Favorite TV Show: I stopped watching TV about 6 years ago. If I have a favorite show it's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. You get the current news but you still feel like laughing when it's over.

Favorite Song: "Joan of Arc" by Leonard Cohen

Favorite Song You've Written: "On A Bus To St. Cloud," "The Way You Move Me"

Favorite Cut: Jimmy LaFave's version of "On A Bus to St. Cloud"

Favorite Singer: Elvis, Frank Sinatra

Favorite Character: My mother

Influences: Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Charlotte Bronte, Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Leonard Cohen

Best Reason to Stay Up Late: Brilliant conversation

Best Reason to Get Up Early: a road trip, the flea market, to go to the beach

Best Reason to Play Hooky: You can only play hooky if you have a real job

Best Reason to Get to Work: Utter, debilitating guilt

Hobbies: movies, photography, decorating

Pet Peeves: Suburbia, shopping malls, car-magnet "patriotism", theme parks, people who say "nuke-u-lar"

Pet Causes: domestic violence, new urbanism

The Perfect Day: The third day of vacation at the beach

The Perfect Evening: Dinner at Galatoire's in New Orleans, or at a cafe on Rue Saint-Germain in Paris, or at home with my sweetheart

Words to Live By: "There is no answer. There never has been an answer. There never will be an answer. That's the answer." - Gertrude Stein

Favorite Record: anything from Blood On The Tracks, Bob Dylan

Favorite Road Trip: All of them, but the Grand Canyon was life-changing

Favorite Car: My black '66 Pontiac Grand Prix

Current Pursuits: Taking French lessons, learning to breathe through the chaos

First record you bought: "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes" (45 RPM single) by Edison Lighthouse