I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.

The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.

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

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

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

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