I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love.

Today she met me at the door, said I would have to choose, if I picked up that fishing rod today, she'd be packing all her things and she'd be gone by noon....well I'm gonna miss her when I get home tonight.

I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So Im always looking for that angle in my own work.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.