People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.

It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.

Wherever is your heart I call home.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.