I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.