Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently

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

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

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.

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.

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.