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

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

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.

It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

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.