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

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

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

I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.