I want to be the guy out there on the edge.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."

I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.