For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

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.