I guess my path feels sort of different now... I don't know what's going to happen, but I certainly want to make music a bigger part of my life in the future than it has been for the last couple of years.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band everyone else wanted to play football.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

How strange it is to be anything at all.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music from around the world as something that fits into their lives or their psyche in any way. So I tried to present it in a different way to give it more of a chance to sink into people's heads.

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.