My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.
One of the things I wanted to do with 'The Turn' was write a production of songs that could be stripped down to one or two instruments if you chose to do it.
When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.
The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that Appalachian soul.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.
I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.
If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.
I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.
There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same”-