I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.