When you're gay every party is a bad sweater party.

I think the biggest challenge I have faced is that I have struggled most of my life with often crippling depression which has sometimes if not keeping me off stage kept me from writing regularly and with any kind of confidence.

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

It's a real valley when I talk about veal. And calf roping. People were sensitive about calf roping. Which I think is quite funny.

It was early on when I was really focused and obsessed with doing The Tonight Show and Letterman and stuff like that. Then, I quickly realized that those things don't make or break a career.

The key is to get it all down on paper before the coffee stops telling you you're talented.

If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.