I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.