I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.

He [Johnny Cash] was so fragile. We invaded Iraq in March, and he died in September. And because his health was so fragile, he couldn't take the controversy of making a public statement against the war. He knew that people were rabid. They attacked me mercilessly after I did the press conference with Musicians United to Win Without War. He knew that he couldn't tolerate that.

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

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