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.

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.

There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

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

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

Interesting little game we play with each other.