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.
“I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.”
“I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.”