If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.

I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.