One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

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

The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.