I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

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

I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

It's more in retrospect as I've thought about it over the years and look back at what I wrote, how I wrote things - like there's a song that Ralph Stanley later recorded with me that he had guested on my record what was called "Travelers Lantern" that I wrote as basically, you know, a hymn.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.