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I was in South Carolina by myself for an entire month. There’s no sounds or lights, just crickets and darkness. It’s an old house, and if you’re in a bad state of mind, you sometimes see things that aren’t there and you go crazy.

I got woken up by someone in the field behind my house in South Carolina. The earth started shaking, and dark spirits were smashing up against every window of my house. I woke up and had my kitten next to me…and I started praying to God to help me.

A voice was telling me my past would be forgotten if I would just meet him — whoever he was — in the field. And I woke up screaming, ‘No! I won’t meet you!’ And I knew who it was: the sneaky old serpent. My nightmare was surrounding my house like a tornado. So I just ran and got my guitar because I was trying to distract myself. I had to turn on the lights and sing to God. I got a tape recorder and recorded the next sixty minutes. And I played these long changes, into six different songs. That’s where I got the record.