I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!
- Tracy ChapmanSticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather`s farm; the branches woven in grandmother`s basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit.
- Patrick Dougherty