I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini.

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.

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.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

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

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.