I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.