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.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds.

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

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.