I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!

Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.