I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.