Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

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.

What's funny is that people think, "Well there has to be something more than wrestling, because wrestling has such an absurd quality to it." But if you tell a love story, people don't ask what else is in there. They say, "Oh, it's just a love story." All stories have many levels, but these ones show their hand and say, "You might want to look a little deeper."