I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

