I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair.

I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.