I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don't know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

She had been born with a face that would let her get away, he saw that face and he lost all control.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.