People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

The audience, that's who I care about.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

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.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.