We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

To say I'll make your dreams come true would be wrong, but maybe, darling, I could help them along.

Is there anybody alive out there?

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.