Every Person's Every Action Has An Effect.

I Have Daughters Who Are Writers And Actors But No Musicians.

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.

For The First Time In 23 Years I'm Enjoying The Process Of Supporting It, Of Going Out And Doing Shows, And Doing The Interviews, And Doing Everything.

When I Was 18 Years Old, I Went On The Road With My Dad After I Graduated From High School. And We Were Riding On The Tour Bus One Day, Kind Of Rolling Through The South, And He Mentioned A Song. We Started Talking About Songs, And He Mentioned One, And I Said I Don't Know That One. And He Mentioned Another. I Said I Don't Know That One Either, Dad, And He Became Very Alarmed That I Didn't Know What He Considered My Own Musical Genealogy.

The Thing That Scares Me Most Is The Shift From Serving The People To Exercising Power And With It, This Attendant Narcissism. Sarah Palin Is A Great Example Of Someone That Just Stirs The Pot For The Sake Of The Attention.