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.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

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.

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.

I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds.

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.