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.

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

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.

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.

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter.

Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.