I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

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.

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.