I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it.

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.