Southern gentility is evocative to me.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

I love mixing up my genres.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do

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.

I don't do comparisons because I always lose.

Every person's every action has an effect.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.