I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.