In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.

The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.