I Love Mixing Up My Genres.

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.

My Dad [johnny Cash] Went To The [richard] Nixon White House And Refused To Sing "welfare Cadillac" (instead Performing The Anti-war Songs "the Ballad Of Ira Hayes" And "man In Black"). He Protested The Vietnam War, But He Went To Perform For The Troops With Bombs Dropping All Around Him. He Had That Kind Of Genius: A True Artist's Capacity For Holding Two Opposing Thoughts At Once While Being Large Enough To Encompass All Realities.

I Have A Real Worker-bee Mentality. Just Show Up, Just Do It. Even If You Feel Like S--t And You Think You're Terrible And You'll Never Get Better And It Will Never Go Anywhere, Just Show Up And Do It. And, Eventually, Something Happens.

You Stand In Front Of A Great Painting And Your Heart Just Opens And Your Mind Expands About What's Possible. That, To Me, Is A Connection To What God Is.

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.