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.

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.

I was raised in the Church of Christ, which was a very abstinent faith. And I just didn't [drink] - there was never anything that I found seductive enough, I guess, to have a romance with it.

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.

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

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