My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.