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“I think most people are engaged in some form of world repair every day through the kindness towards those they love, towards strangers, in creating the work and the art that they do.”-Ellen Kaye

“Terribly familiar and haunting all at once.” -Ellen Kaye

“…whose bones do we care about and whose bones do we abandon?” -Ellen Kaye

“…we’re just showbiz people telling a story.” – Ellen Kaye

“That you could curse your destiny, upend it and walk away.”-Ellen Kaye

“It is the saddest story ever told. With the boldest beginning. But the darkest flaw is in our making. ” -Ellen Kaye

“How it feels to have your heart filled to the brim with love and dread for your child.” -Ellen Kaye

“The original letter was very plainly written…but it was enough to make me want to write this song.” -Ellen Kaye

“His blue eyes were always a little further down the road, drifting upon unseen waters.” -Ellen Kaye

“History in a nutshell told by a nightclub singer, not an historian.” -Ellen Kaye

“I started telling this story a long time ago. For now I’ll let the song say it all.” -Ellen Kaye

“it was America in 1974. Not like anything else.” -Ellen Kaye

“River Styx brings my time in Phoenix House on Hart Island to life. I was fourteen when I got there…I’m tackling my own story, the stories of abandoned people, of what it’s like to be left behind.” – Ellen Kaye

“Haunted Hart is about a man I loved when I lived on Hart Island in 1974…these are my memories of him. And the ghosts of Potter’s Field.”-Ellen Kaye

“For my son Ian.” -Ellen Kaye

“In memory of Kim Tsang, my son Ian’s father.” – Ellen Kaye

“…the sense of no clocks, endless days, just rolling on forever in a blissful state.” – Ellen Kaye

“For all the past beloved summer days and nights and all the radiant ones yet to come.” – Ellen Kaye

“Where the hell are the women?” – Ellen Kaye

“When Ethan and I finished writing this tune I knew I had to hear him sing it.” – Ellen Kaye