The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.