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

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

Every person's every action has an effect.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

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