Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I come from a long line of Sinners like me

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.

I can't stand making records.

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.