Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

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!