Southern Gentility Is Evocative To Me.

On The Plane, An Eight-year-old With An Excess Of Testosterone Keeps Running Across My Feet. Finally I Grab Him By His T-shirt And Say, Very Sweetly, 'listen, Darling, If You Don't Stop Trampling Me I'm Going To Make You Sit On My Lap While I Tell You My Entire Life Story. Including A Lot Of Details About Drug Rehab And My Divorce.' He Goes Back To His Seat.

Documenting One's Life In The Midst Of Living It Is A Strange Pursuit.

I Was Sensitive To Music And Poetry, And It Was Around Me Growing Up.

Yeah, I Was In The Phase For The Last Ten Years Or So Where Every Record I Made I Said Ok, That's The Last One, I Don't Want To Record Anymore, I Don't Want To Do This Any More, I Don't Want To Have A Public Life.

I'm A Songwriter. My Voice Just Serves What I'm Writing About. So To Let All That Go, I Mean, Bring The Sensibilities Of It Actually To The Song Choices, But To Just Be The Interpreter Was Incredibly Liberating And Really Fun.