There's so much more to life than what you're feeling now

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.