If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

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.

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

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.

Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles!.

I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.

Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true.