I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!