Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.