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.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

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

When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.

There's nothing I hate more than nothing.

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