Two especially resonant bits from a
2005 interview with Gillian Welch:
- I've always responded to that simple peculiar folk language. Those songs that don't even explain themselves…
You don't need to explain every aspect of a story.
…because, how could you?
How could you possibly know… [for example,] (why that guy killed his girlfriend?)
- I'm so intrigued that songs written one-hundred or two-hundred years ago mean so much to me now. And they're so alive. They do this wonderful thing of making time non-existent.
It's the exact opposite of feeling the clock tick. It absolutely stops the clock. It's a very liberating feeling.
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