As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

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

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.

I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!

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.

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