If A Relationship Is Founded On Love

Self-expression Without Craft Is For Toddlers.

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.

Think About All Of The Families Where The Father Is A Doctor And The Son Is A Doctor Or Generations Of Coal Miners. Why Did They Go Into That Line Of Work? Because That's What They Were Taught. Or Was It In Their Genes? It's Not An Either/or Question. It's Both. I Was Inclined In That Way. I Was Sensitive To Music And Poetry, And It Was Around Me Growing Up.

Sometimes The Fragment Of A Conversation, The Color Of The Sky, The Image In A Dream, Has Everything To Do With Where The Song Begins.

I Was Down With Lucinda Williams And Mary Chapin-carpenter. We Did An Acoustic Tour, Just The Three Of Us, Three Chicks And Three Guitars