For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I feel it right down in my stomach when I'm in touch with something. I don't know what it is.

Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.

I hate the road so much. I almost go into a cocoon with my own people out there.

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.