Songs are more powerful than books.

I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.