“Ain't it hard when you wake up in the morning, and you find out that those other days are gone... All you have is memories of happiness, lingering on... All your friends and your lovers won't protect you; they're only passing through you in the end... They'll leave you stripped of all that you can get to and wait for you to come back again... But still a light is shining, from that lamp on down the hall... Maybe the Star of Bethlehem wasn't a star at all.”
“[One of the album's most poignant songs is its closing number, When God Made Me , sung from the perspective of a man searching for his place in the divine plan.] Did he create just me in his image, ... or every living thing?”
“I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.”
“[The lyrics are filled with reminiscences.] It's about where I'm from and where our family's from and where the world is going, ... and what it used to be like when my grandfather was a kid, and what they remember and what I remember them telling me about, the things that they saw that no one will ever see again.”
“I feel like our religion and our faith have been hijacked. What is bothering me the most is the misappropriation of religion and faith, the misuse of God and the house of worship. It's one faith with different people trying to express it in different ways. It's all about being the little guy in the big world.”
“[The archive project has been as time-consuming as Prairie Wind was spontaneous.] When I do finally get it out there, it's going to be a great relief, ... It's like a huge overcoat that I wear. It's got a lot of pockets in it. Some of them are full of diamonds. Some of them are just full of lead. It's a burden, but it's getting lighter.”
