I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old.

You can't start a fire Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even if we're just dancing in the dark

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.