I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.

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

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

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.