I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

Baby booty, juicy fruity, truck stop cutie, road side beauty, I'm in love with you.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.