A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything.

Religion is a smile on a dog.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.