And I Kind Of Said To Myself

If You're Playing In A Tradition And You Have No Reference Point To It, No Understanding And Have Not Studied It, I Can't Respect That.

My Dad And I Had A Real Meeting Of The Minds. We Loved To Talk About Music, Politics, And Art. He Loved Children. The Thing I Missed Most About My Dad When He Died Was That This Person Who Really Gets Who I Am At The Core Was Gone.

Isn't That The Goal, As You Grow Older? That You Start Reclaiming Those Parts Of Yourself You Didn't Recognize Or Didn't Think Were There All Along? That's What Happened When I Made The River And The Thread Record.

I Wanted To Be A Songwriter.i Didn't So Much Want To Be A Performer.i More Grew Into That Just From Being A Songwriter.

I Couldn't Listen To Music With Lyrics For The First Few Months After The Brain Surgery, Because They Were Too Complex And Disturbing. So I Listened To A Lot Of Classical Music. I Didn't Really Want To Read, Either, So I Listened To Books On Tape Or Watched Movies. I Also Re-taught Myself All Of My Childhood Piano Pieces. It Helped Me Repair My Brain.