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.

I love mixing up my genres.

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

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

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