My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.

I feel like I live in my own little world, to be honest. I mean, I love my record, but I don't feel tied to it. I sort of created my own little universe in the studio, and that's why all of those musicians who made a living in the Nashville music scene loved coming over to my place so much.

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

I'm sure you feel differently about writing than you did when you first started. When you get older and your brain changes, you have to figure out how your job fits into your life as it changes, you know what I mean? I guess everybody goes through that stuff, and I'm no exception, always trying to figure out what I'm doing with music.

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.