I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel.

Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.