I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but I like to stay inside and be a hermit.

I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.

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

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.