Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
This is how it has been since time began If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.
Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... It just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
