I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

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

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced a rhyme scheme maybe to certain extent. They influenced the pentameter of placement of words, etc. And it's not something that's a conscious thing that occurred.

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

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

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