I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

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

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

And all I really want to say is you're the reason I want to stay.

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.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.