I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

When you weigh 135 pounds and you're telling people who are 6'4" and 250 pounds to get out of your way, how do you do that? Well, a lot of that is in the eyes.

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.