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 always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster that killed his brother-in-law, my grandmother's brother. And he never talked about his own brother's death to me. My mother told me about that and told me about the impact on her family. And that's part of what you hear in the first verse of "Miner's Prayer."

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.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

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

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

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