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 try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

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.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

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.