They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.

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.

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

When the whistle blows each morning and I walk down in that cold, dark mine, say a prayer to my dear savior. Please let me see the sunshine one more time. When oh when will it be over? When will I lay these burdens down? And when I die, dear lord in heaven, please take my soul from 'neath that cold, dark ground.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.