Work ... is redemption.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

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

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

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.