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

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

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.

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.