I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.