I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.

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 tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

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

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.

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