You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

Dream dictionaries are so disappointing. They're so limited, and I think they're just total bullshit. I really do. I don't know much about the Freudian theory of dreams; it's probably more interesting than your average hippie dream dictionary, but it's got to be a lot deeper than that. It can't all be about sex all the time, so I don't know if Freud is right either.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.

I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.