The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

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 don't care if I starve.

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

I can't stand making records.