Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

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

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.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.