I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.
“If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.”
“I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.”