More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

Southern gentility is evocative to me.

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

The key to change is to let go of fear.