I was pretty nearly dead. So I don't waste much energy or time now. I think that writing prose and writing poetry and writing a play helps my songwriting. This last record was the first that was really affected by that work, and I'm totally proud of it. But it's a little more complicated than that.
Irish people see artists as being such a treasure quite different from America.
I do a lot of different kinds of stuff. I'm not real likely to make an opera record. I'm probably not going to make a jazz record. But other than that, pretty much anything goes. Texas loves to kill people.