I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional.

I didn't want to do something typical.

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. I want to hear that artist; I don't want to hear me - that's the last thing I want to hear. There are a lot of technical studio things I've learned or figured out, and I feel like I could use those things to help other people with what they're doing.

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.