Southern Gentility Is Evocative To Me.

If I Ignore My Work, I Start Having Anxiety Attacks.

My Record Label Is Treating Me Like I'm A New Artist, Which Is Exciting After All This Time.

The Ephemeral Nature Of Live Performance Is The Part I Love Most - It's A Monk's Sand Painting, Carefully Constructed, Then Wiped Away In An Instant.

When I Was 18 Years Old, I Went On The Road With My Dad After I Graduated From High School. And We Were Riding On The Tour Bus One Day, Kind Of Rolling Through The South, And He Mentioned A Song. We Started Talking About Songs, And He Mentioned One, And I Said I Don't Know That One. And He Mentioned Another. I Said I Don't Know That One Either, Dad, And He Became Very Alarmed That I Didn't Know What He Considered My Own Musical Genealogy.

I Am So Sick Of Reading About Another Car Bomb, Another Suicide Bomber, Another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 People Dead In A Day, Both Americans And Iraqis.