James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.