Southern Gentility Is Evocative To Me.

Self-expression Without Craft Is For Toddlers.

The Thing That Scares Me Most Is The Shift From Serving The People To Exercising Power And With It, This Attendant Narcissism. Sarah Palin Is A Great Example Of Someone That Just Stirs The Pot For The Sake Of The Attention.

It's A Little Dangerous For Me To Get Outside Myself And Think About How I Want People To See Me.

Yeah, I Was In The Phase For The Last Ten Years Or So Where Every Record I Made I Said Ok, That's The Last One, I Don't Want To Record Anymore, I Don't Want To Do This Any More, I Don't Want To Have A Public Life.

As I Started Writing About Loss And Grief, I Was Taking What Felt Unmanageable And Using My Songwriting, My Sense Of Poetry And Discipline, To Try And Make It Manageable.