I love tape. It's another member of the band, the way it settles and blankets everything.

You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.

I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.

I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

I'm very grateful, but at the same time, I'm glad all this happened when I'm 36 instead of 26 because I - I'm just such a homebody, and I just want to write songs and make the best record that I can.