I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.

It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.

I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.