The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own.

I feel that it's nothing if not an incredible privilege to be able to get up on stage and play for people, and I don't ever take it for granted.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.