Southern Gentility Is Evocative To Me.

The New Record Started Out Being About Loss, But It's Morphed Into Being About How Relationships Go On Even Though One Person Is Not In A Body Anymore.

As I Started Writing About Loss And Grief, I Was Taking What Felt Unmanageable And Using My Songwriting, My Sense Of Poetry And Discipline, To Try And Make It Manageable.

I'm Not The Type To Turn To Drugs And Alcohol, But I Do Have A Profound Devotion To Art And Music - And Children.

I Was A Songwriter; That Was The Torch I Carried. This Is An Honorable Profession. This Is What I Do.

I Found It Was Really Impossible For Me To Write Songs When I Couldn't Sing.