Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.