Work ... is redemption.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.