I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.

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.

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.