I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again. Up to that point, I was not really that appreciative of what was going on, or thinking about documenting life in a plainspoken manner. I was talking about my life and writing songs, but then I would go back and listen and they were about dreams, and legends, and metaphors and that was just not my life!

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.