I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.

You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.