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

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choices, but to just be the interpreter was incredibly liberating and really fun.

Southern gentility is evocative to 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.

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

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves