I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

My mother insisted that her children read.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.