You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like. But, I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.