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

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

Im really good at writing almost hits.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.

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.