I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

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

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

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

I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

Songs aren't owned by anyone.