In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

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 my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

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.

It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.

I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.