I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

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

I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

I've always been very politically interested from a very young age and I hadn't felt that was something I could begin to bring into my songwriting because I hadn't felt I'd reached the stage, that I had the skill with language enough, yet, to do that.

My mom is a sculptress.

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

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.