People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

When I say nothing, I say everything

It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

If what you are doing is working, DON'T change just to be different. Just get better.