I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future.

Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.