The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.

I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.