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.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

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.

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

But now, with the last two years of touring and being on the road, I've learned that a live show should never sound like a record; a record should sound like a live show.